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THE PRESENT CHURCH
The present Church, dedicated to St Cuthbert, is a neat stone building consisting of an ancient nave with western gallery, chancel with organ chamber and vestry, southern porch and low square western tower containing one bell. Two windows filled with stained glass on the south side and two similar windows on the north side light the nave. At the west end of the tower is a pointed window of two lights of plain diamond panes. The gallery at the west end extends over the full width of the nave and beneath it is the Baptistery with a stone font which was erected in 1871. It took the place of an ancient font. The chancel is separated from the nave by a pointed arch springing from projecting corbels and is lit by one window of stained glass on the south side and by a large window of three lights of coloured glass on the east.
INSIDE THE CHURCH
Before it was rebuilt the chancel had been in ruins for 300 years. On the south wall of the chancel there is a brass plate with the inscription "To the Glory of God and in memory of John Greenwell, Esq., of Broomshields Hall who died on the 7th December 1869 in the 89th year of his age. The Chancel is erected by his family A.D. 1870 as a Token of their Respect and Affection to his Memory" On the north side is a similar plate inscribed "The Chancel was reseated and Embellished by Voluntary Subscription A.D. 1870 J.P. DePledge, Vicar, George Alder, William Fawcett, Churchwardens."
There are various memorials in the stained glass windows to the Greenwell family of Broomshields Hall. The Rev. Joseph Thompson, and The Rev. DePledge. Two mural
Tablets on the walls are to the memory of Thomas John Warneford J.P. who after 23 years
service in India was Vicar of Satley from June 1891 to December 1904. He died 15th July 1905. His nephew, Lieutenant Reginald Alexander John Warnford spent all his school
holidays in Satley and in 1915 won the Victoria Cross.
HAROLD GEORGE DePLEDGE
Colonel commanding 19th Alexander, Princess of Wales Own Hussars, third son of Rev .J.P. DePledge who died January 2nd 1908 aged 40 years. He served in Egypt in 1883, the Nile expedition in 1884 and South Africa 1899-1902. He was awarded the Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel for great gallantry in action.
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