Church Of St Martin

The Church of St Martin is a church with origins dating back to the 12th century or earlier, which was rebuilt between 1849 and 1850 by the architect Chantrell. It features re-used ashlar stone and slate roofs. The church has a 5 1/2-bay nave with a west bellcote and a 3-bay chancel.

The nave has a shallow plinth and pilaster buttresses, along with a grooved string course. The east bay contains paired, narrow, round-headed windows, while the rest of the nave has single, narrow round-headed windows. Each window head is carved from a single block and features shallow incised chevron ornament. The south door, set in a shallow projecting porch beneath a corbelled roof, has three orders: the outer order has a stylised beakhead, the central order has a beakhead, and the inner order features another stylised beakhead, all beneath a shallow hoodmould with incised chevrons. The door is flanked by nook-shafts with scalloped capitals on the outer order and carved capitals on the central and inner orders, supporting hollow-chamfered abaci adorned with repeating rosettes and moulded bases.

Above, a corbel table from the 12th century displays a series of masks and beasts beneath a Lombard frieze. The bellcote is designed in a Romanesque style, featuring paired and round-headed openings with nook- and mid-wall shafts on the cardinal faces, all under a heavy corbel table and topped with a pyramidal stone roof.

The chancel also has a shallow plinth and pilaster buttresses, with a decorated string interrupted by buttresses, showcasing diagonally-set squares in relief between a wave motif. It has three narrow round-headed windows under hoodmoulds and a priests' door with a shouldered arch. The corbel table here features grotesques and a mounted warrior with a spear beneath a Lombard frieze, and there are three round-headed windows under hoodmoulds at the east end. The nave and chancel have raised coped gables.

Inside, the church is plain and whitewashed. The chancel arch consists of three square orders with nook-shafts that have cubical caps and bases. Above the south door is a vesica with narrow roll-moulding that holds triple figures, possibly representing The Trinity.