Parish Church, Weisdale

The Parish Church in Weisdale, built in 1863, is a three-by-three-bay symmetrical Gothic hall church featuring a bellcote on the southern entrance gable. The church has harled walls with droved sandstone ashlar margins and projecting cills on the windows.

The southern entrance gable is symmetrical and includes a gabled porch at the center with a pointed-arched window above and a vertically-boarded timber entrance door to the east. Above the porch, there is a blind pointed-arched window set into an advanced and shouldered centerpiece that breaks the gablehead, which is topped by a harled plinth leading to a corniced ashlar birdcage bellcote with a bell-cast pyramidal slate cap. Flanking the porch at ground level are pointed-arched windows, and the gable is framed by square ashlar buttresses that rise as obelisk-like pinnacles.

On the eastern elevation, there is a pointed-arched window in each regularly spaced bay. The northern rear gable features a two-bay design with tall pointed-arched windows that extend into the gablehead. The western elevation mirrors the eastern elevation but has the right bay obscured by a modern flat-roofed addition.

The pointed-arched windows are fitted with timber fixed-lights that have a Gothic astragal pattern in the arch-heads. The roof is covered with purple-grey slate and has ashlar skew copes, bracketted skewputts, and an urn finial on the northern gable.

Inside, the entrance porch has an open timber roof. The inner vestibule door features a stop-chamfered surround and is bordered-glazed with a panelled design, topped by a plate glass pointed-arched fanlight. A two-leaf eight-panel door leads from the vertically-boarded inner vestibule to the hall. The hall has a raked timber floor and vertically-boarded wainscoting, with horizontally-boarded pews behind vertically-boarded principal pews that have balustraded backs and ball-finialled newel posts facing a timber pulpit located in the northern gable. The pulpit consists of a balustraded platform with a panelled lectern at the center and ball-finialled balustrades leading to symmetrically-disposed steps, with a tripartite Gothic panel rising behind it, featuring applied foliate carving and urn finials.

Surrounding the church is a modern harled wall that encloses the entrance area, featuring wrought-iron gates that bear the dates 1863 and 1963.