Former Parish Church Of St Barbara

The former parish church of St. Barbara, now redundant, displays a complex history with origins in the 12th century and subsequent alterations throughout the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, with a restoration in 1924. The fabric is primarily of coursed limestone rubble and ashlar, roofed with pantiles, plain tiles, and lead, with raised stone coped gables.

The building comprises an unbuttressed west tower, a clerestoried nave, a south aisle and porch, and a chancel. The west tower, originally built in the 12th century, is of two stages with a 14th-century ashlar belfry and plain parapet. The belfry stage features two-light reticulated louvered lights with cusped ogee heads and quatrefoils within a pointed, hollow-chamfered surround. A round-headed window is located on the ground stage to the west, and similar windows are present on the south side to the middle stage, all with chamfered surrounds and hoods. A blocked late 13th-century Caernarvon arched doorway is rendered into the north nave wall, while the chancel has a single 13th-century lancet window. The clerestory has single three-light windows, recut in the 15th century, with four-centred arched heads and hollow-chamfered surrounds. The chancel east window, dating from the 16th century, is of three lights with chamfered mullions, surround, and a plain hood. A 13th-century two-light Y-traceried window and a lancet are set into the chancel south wall. The south aisle contains a 19th-century three-light perpendicular-style east window and a matching three-light window to the south, both with cusped heads to the lights and cusped trefoils to the segmental heads.

The gabled 14th-century south porch has a deeply chamfered and pointed outer doorway, side benches, and an inner 15th-century door with a hollow-chamfered pointed surround set within a rectangular frame with sunk trilobes to the spandrels. Matching three-light windows are located in the southern clerestory.

Internally, the two-bay 13th-century south arcade has octagonal piers and reveals with moulded capitals and double-chamfered arches. The broad tower arch features half-engaged round shafts to the reveals with chamfered capitals, now supporting a double-chamfered four-centred arch, with traces of red paint on the reveals. The 11th-century chancel arch has plain chamfered imposts and a round head, above which are painted Royal Arms and traces of a 15th-century Doom. The 15th-century nave roof has through purlins and chamfered principals. Within the chancel are a pointed and chamfered aumbry on the south side and a rectangular aumbry to the north. The church contains an 18th-century panelled oak pulpit, some 18th-century raised and fielded softwood panelling in the nave and chancel, an 18th-century octagonal softwood statue base in the south aisle, and a 14th-century plain octagonal font with a chamfered top and base with plinth.