Parish Church. 1853. By R. Armstrong. Coursed and squared
rubble with plain tiled roof with scalloped bands. Decorated
style. SE tower and spire, nave and 2 aisles, chancel.
Buttressed tower of 3 stages with paired lights in lower
stage, clock above, and paired bell-chamber lights. Corbel
table, octagonal brooch spire. Polygonal stair-turret in SE
angle. South aisle porch, buttressed and with coped gable over
simple chamfered archway. Buttresses divide aisle walls into
bays, with 2-light Decorated windows. West door in ogee arch
with heavy mouldings, and 3-light window over. East window to
chancel of 4-lights.
INTERIOR: 5-bay Early English style arcades with alternate
cylindrical and octagonal shafts. Raking trusses carry collars
with queen struts to wind-braced roof. Simple moulded chancel
arch. Encaustic tiles, possibly by Minton to chancel, which
contains Stanier memorial, a large wall tablet erected in 1856
with bust beneath wide ogee arch flanked by pinnacles, the
whole enriched with niches, crockets and foliate decoration.
Stained glass: badly corroded representation of Life of Christ
in east window, undated. Figures of Saints in north and south
aisles, 1892 and 1897. Original oak pews. Chancel screen with
3 traceried arches and cross over, erected as war memorial.
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