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Freestanding church, built 1881, comprising four-bay nave, single-bay chancel, porch and vestry to south side of chancel, and two-stage bell tower to north side of chancel, with side chapel to ground floor. Pitched slate roofs with banding of fish-scale pattern slates, cut limestone eaves brackets and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pyramidal slate roof to tower, with cut limestone eaves brackets, band of fish-scale pattern slates and decorative iron finial. Snecked dressed limestone walls, tower having more finely dressed snecked limestone to bottom stage and snecked ashlar to upper stage, all walls having dressed limestone quoins and copings, cut limeston eaves brackets, chamfered cut limestone dressings to window and door openings. Corner buttresses to west end of nave and east end of chancel, with base batter to porch and vestry. Lancet windows to nave, with leaded windows and some painted glass. Double lancet to west gable of nave, with quatrefoil above. Lancet and square-headed window openings to vestry. Pointed arch triple-light east window with reticulated tracery and stained glass. Tower has pointed-arch window openings, with timber louvers to top stage and leaded glazing to bottom stage. Pointed-arch entrance doorways to porch and vestry, with timber battened doors having decorative cast-iron strap hinges and limestone threshold and step. Doorways into vestry and into nave proper set into triangular-headed recesses, that into nave having carved timber surround to inner side with crocketed finials and shield motif and supported on timber clustered colonettes. Similar freestanding timber sedilia in chancel. Exposed timber scissors truss roof. Timber wainscoting to nave and vestry. Timber pews to nave and carved timber pulpit to chancel. Render hood-moulding to inner side of east window, and moulded render surround and imposts to chancel arch, latter springing from render corbels. Marble plaques to nave. Church located in graveyard with mature woodland set on high ground overlooking River Blackwater.
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