Church Of St Martin

The Church of St Martin is a church dating from 1845, designed by G T Andrews for Col William St Quintin. It is constructed of dressed sandstone with a limestone ashlar base, buttresses, and dressings, and has a slate roof. The church features a square-headed west window with two cusped lancets, with a pair of similar windows above, and single lights at the west end of both aisles. A gabled bellcote has twin pointed arches on chamfered responds and an octagonal centre shaft, topped with a crocket finial. The nave's south side has dwarf angle buttresses; the gabled porch has a hollow-chamfered opening with a roll-moulded, pointed arch on colonettes with moulded capitals, a coved hoodmould with leaf stops, and a crocket finial. The pointed south door is fitted with C-hinges. To the east of the porch are two square-headed windows with paired cusped lancets, and three similar windows are on the north side with a central dwarf buttress. The chancel’s south side has a pointed priest’s door in a triple-chamfered opening, and to the west is a pointed window of pointed cusped lights beneath reticulated quatrefoil tracery. Dwarf buttresses are located east of the door and at the east angle. The vestry has a pent roof and a truncated stack, with a pointed east window of three lights with geometric tracery beneath a coved hoodmould on corbel heads, and a paired lancet window to the side. All windows have double-chamfered openings. All gables have coped edges, and the nave and chancel have gable crosses. Inside, the north and south arcades have double-chamfered arches on cylindrical columns with waterholding bases and moulded capitals. The pointed chancel arch stands on half-octagonal responds with moulded capitals. In the sanctuary’s south side are trefoil-headed double sedilia. A finely carved rood screen, stalls, altar, pulpit, and prayer desk were donated by William Herbert St Quintin in 1906. A round-arched niche on side shafts within the chancel’s north wall contains a carved marble Deposition, placed in memory of Rev George Danby by the same benefactor. An octagonal font is accompanied by a tall crocketed cover. A memorial window in the chancel’s south side is inscribed with a dedication to William St Quintin and his wife, Louisa, who built the church in 1845. Several original windows retain stained glass.