Church Lychgate

The Church Lychgate is a tower that was originally part of St Helen's Chapel of Ease, dating from the 14th century. It has been restored in 1853-54, during which a spire was added by William Butterfield. The structure is made of sandstone rubble with some restoration in sandstone ashlar, featuring a stone flag spire and a slate roof on the staircase extension.

The tower is designed in three stages and has offset diagonal buttresses, with a single-stage staircase extension on the north side. The lowest stage has double-chamfered pointed arches on both sides, supported by chamfered responds, with bar stops on the west and broach stops on the east. The second stage contains a single rectangular light, while the third stage features two-light louvred bell openings with trefoil tracery beneath pointed head-stopped hood-moulds. Chamfered string courses run along the second and third stages. The tower is topped with an octagonal broach spire that includes lucarnes and a weather-vane, and there is a pent roof above the staircase extension.