The Holy Cross

Nave is the earliest part of the building, with south aisle and chancel added in C14, rebuilt in C16.

Tower refaced in later C17

largely C14.

Massive stepped angle buttresses to SW and NW added in 1675 (dated).

Gabled south porch added in C16: 4-centred archway in squared architrave with paired shafts on high bases.

Stained glass fragments in east and west windows.

C16, square-headed, with transoms and segmentally arched lights in two windows, the others with reticulated tracery.

South wall faced with well coursed and squared stone work, but the fabric of the original C14 aisle visible in east and west walls.

Interior: 4-bay C14 arcade with double chamfered arches carried on octagonal shafts with simply moulded capitals.

Stone dated 1584 inset over one arch may possibly date the C16 work on the church.

Chancel screen of 1934 by Bernard A. Miller, with carving designed and executed by Alan Durst.

Tall posts with low relief elongated angels figures carry lintel with low reliefs of Sacraments to west, and an altar flanked by stars and angels to the east.

C15 octagonal font with traceried panels carried on angel heads over square chamfered base.

Painted wood war memorial triptych with gilded lettering and crucifix in canopied niche on north wall.

Stained glass: series of Flemish vignettes in chancel east window, with small crucifixion added to east window (possibly by Kempe).

Larger chancel south window has figures of Christ with saints Helen and Oswald, symbolising the holy cross.

Marble memorial on south wall of chancel to Margaret Hughes, 1802, by W.Spence of Liverpool.