Congregational Church

The Congregational Church, built in 1843, is set back from the east side of North Street and accessed via gates along a wide drive leading to the west front. Designed in a 12th-century Gothic style, the church features coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. The high gable of the nave is flanked by corner buttresses that have setoffs, with lean-to roofs over the aisles. At the apex of the gable is a glazed vesica, and below it are triple lancets arranged in echelon, each with hoodmoulds. A stringcourse runs beneath these windows. On the ground floor, there is a second triplet of shorter lancets, also with hoodmoulds. The aisle ends are marked by corner buttresses topped with pinnacles and oculi. Small gabled porches project from the aisles, featuring corner buttresses and pinnacles as well. The entrances have pointed archways with wooden doors. Inside, the four-bay aisled nave boasts openwork wooden roofs above the clerestorey and wooden galleries. To the right of the west front, there is a two-storey lean-to extension with a single lancet on the first floor and a pointed archway below. A passageway leads through to Whirligig Lane.