St Philip's Church

St Philip's Church is a Grade I listed building featuring an asymmetrical cruciform plan with an aisle-less nave, a lean-to loggia entrance on the south side, a chancel, a south transept, and an opposing vestry. It is constructed from rubble-slate, with a rough plinth, stone-coped gables, and strongly over-sailing eaves supported by bold corbels. The church has slate roofs, with only the nave retaining the original graded slates. The windows include plain round arches for the transept and chancel, a segmental window for the vestry wing, and an oculus at the liturgical west end, along with a square-headed window on the south side of the nave. In front of the entrance loggia, there is a stone-flagged terrace, and the loggia itself features a deep rustic corbelled cornice supported by two square piers. Inside, there are stone benches and paired round-headed windows in a Romanesque style. The large six-panelled door is raised and fielded, adorned with enormous ironwork hinges, and above it is an inscribed tablet dated 1896 in memory of Jelf and also of Petit and his sister, Emma Gentile Petit. Over the crossing, a massive four-part bellcote with book-end-like piers, one of which includes a chimney stack, is of special interest for its mechanism, which allows all the bells to be rung from a wheel-operated single rope located in an open lean-to in the north corner between the vestry and chancel. The chancel gable apex is dated 1862, indicating that this part of the church is a later addition.

The interior is simply rendered, featuring a three-bay nave with an open roof supported by broad wallheads. At the liturgical west end, there is a wheel window set in a splayed recess with coloured glass. The chancel and the two-bay south transept have purlined roofs. The nave and south transept contain plain contemporary grained pews. The east window features a classical crucifixion in stained glass, inserted in 1892 in memory of Samuel Holland, by Kempe, while simple coloured glass is used elsewhere. Furnishings include a marble reredos, altar rails set in a semi-circular arc defining a mosaic-floored sanctuary, an octagonal pulpit dated 1899 with carved panels, and a large plain square font.