Church Of St Augustine

The Church of St Augustine is a parish church built in 1815 on an early medieval site, incorporating some old masonry in its vestry. The chancel was rebuilt after 1900 by Temple Moore. The church is constructed from coursed herringbone-tooled sandstone with dressings and features a flat plinth, while the vestry is made of pecked sandstone. The roofs of the nave and vestry are covered with Lakeland slate, and the chancel roof has flat clay tiles. The structure includes a west tower, nave, chancel with a south aisle, a north chapel, and a south vestry.

The nave has four bays with round-arched windows of plain leaded glass, and there is a sundial located between the first and second windows. The chancel is taller with five bays and includes a clerestory. The three-bay south chancel aisle features sloped and stepped buttress bay divisions and narrow, chamfered segment-headed windows. The old vestry to the east of the aisle appears to date from the 16th century, with a door and a narrow double-chamfered window, although the window head looks older.

The vestry has massive quoins and two slit windows in its east wall. The east window is tall and neo-Decorated, with buttresses at the east end crowned by octagonal tourelles. There is also a tall three-light neo-Tudor window on the north side of the chancel, located directly below the clerestory. To the west, there is a memorial chapel with windows that have been moved from their original nave position, along with a door designed by Moore and a chamfered single light. An old grave slab is set against the north nave wall.

Inside, the Georgian part of the church is plastered, featuring six-panel doors leading from the tower to the nave and from the stick-baluster stair to the west gallery, which has stepped seating and a panelled front supported by two wooden columns. There is a triple archway (with the side arches being quite small) leading to the stone chancel, which has a false hammerbeam roof. The chancel contains an aumbry, piscina, and sedilia. Fragments of Saxon sculpture are incorporated into the rebuilt wall of the west vestry. There are also triple arches leading to the north chapel and south aisle. The church features two pieces of cross sculpture with interlace, parts of a head and shaft, a wheel, a standing figure, and a figure on an ass's back, as well as an early grave cover. Late Georgian memorial tablets, mostly dedicated to the Grenside family, can be found in the nave, along with good oak woodwork in the chancel and a carved and painted reredos.