Church of the Holy Martyrs

The Church of the Holy Martyrs is an Anglican parish church built between 1865 and 1868 by architect R K Penson. It is constructed from grey snecked rubble stone with grey stone dressings and features slate roofs with crested ridge tiles, designed in an Early English style. The church includes a nave, a south aisle with a southwest porch tower (which is incomplete), a transeptal gable, and a chancel with a canted apse and a north vestry.

Architectural features include simple lancet windows without mouldings, with three on the west front and additional ones on the south transept gable. The nave gables are coped and topped with cross finials. The northwest angle of the nave is buttressed from the north, while the southwest tower has a single lancet window to the west, two-step buttresses to the northwest and southwest (the southwest buttress is set diagonally), and a southeast octagonal stair tower with a south buttress. The south door is pointed arched. The southwest tower is capped with an overhanging slate pyramid roof, which was intended to rise higher to accommodate a recessed bell-stage beneath a tall broached slate spire. The south aisle features a single lancet window to the right of the transept gable, which has modern coping that replaces the original eaves. The chancel has lancet windows above a moulded sill band, with no buttresses, and the north vestry includes a fine battered square chimney and a pointed vestry door.

Inside, the church is whitewashed and has a three-bay nave roof that was originally open but boarded in 1905. The south arcade consists of two bays with round pillars and two-chamfer pointed arches. The chancel arch is supported by corbelled short half-columns. The chancel roof is panelled with plaster between raised ribs. There is a roll moulded sill band around the chancel and splayed rear arches to the chancel windows. An octagonal 19th-century font sits on a foiled pier. While there are no original pews or pulpit, the original sanctuary rails remain, made of timber with iron inserts. One stained glass window from around 1921 is signed by ?H G Hiller. Additionally, an early Christian lettered memorial stone can be found in the church porch.