Church Of St Wilfrid

The Church of St Wilfrid has Anglo-Saxon origins, with significant additions and alterations made in the 13th, 14th, 15th, 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Constructed primarily of magnesian limestone, it features a stone slate and lead roof. The building comprises a west tower, a three-bay aisled nave, a south porch, and remnants of a south aisle and vestry.

The three-stage west tower has early 14th-century diagonal buttresses with offsets to the first stage. A two-light window with Reticulated tracery is located on the west face. The first stage has a continuous band. Round-headed bell openings with two lights and shaft detailing are on the second stage, while the third stage features pointed, two-light bell openings with Reticulated tracery on each side, all topped by battlements with pinnacles. A pointed arch with chamfered jambs provides entrance, likely under a 20th-century porch.

The nave incorporates 13th-century aisles and a 14th-century clerestory. Aisles have buttresses with offsets. The north aisle has a pointed doorway set within a chamfered surround, and a three-light, straight-headed window with panel tracery at its east end, partially recut. The north aisle is also embattled.

The chancel features angle buttresses with offsets. A two-light window with Y-tracery is found in the south aisle, otherwise occupied by a 19th-century vestry. The east end has a re-inserted three-light, straight-headed Perpendicular window. The north aisle has a plinth, a two-light window with Y-tracery, and a two-light window with Reticulated tracery. A 19th-century niche for a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary is within the gable.

Inside, a double-chamfered pointed tower arch leads into the nave, which has 13th-century arcades with circular piers, broadly moulded capitals, and double-chamfered arches. The responds are keeled, with some having been recut. A trefoil-headed piscina is located in the south aisle. The 13th-century double-chamfered chancel arch has squints on either side. The chancel has a two-bay arcade to the south and a two-light window with Reticulated tracery. Two 17th-century wall tablets are present. A cast-iron plaque commemorates the restoration of the choir by Thomas Edmunds in 1685. The font is likely from the 13th century, square on plan, with flatly carved crosses within circles on each side, surmounted by an arch-head with a fleur-de-lys. It has a wooden cover dated 1669, suspended from a decorated wrought-iron chain. A communion rail is dated 1664. Stained glass consists of some medieval fragments in the north and south aisle west windows, with the remainder by Kempe, dating to 1891.