Church Of St Vincent

The Church of St Vincent is a parish church dating from the 12th century, with substantial additions and alterations in the 13th, 14th centuries, 1678, and 1795. It is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, roofed with slate. The church comprises a west tower, a nave, a chancel, and a vestry.

The three-stage west tower was built in 1678 and features a plinth, two moulded string courses, an embattled parapet, angle pinnacles, and clasped stepped buttresses to the first stage. The north and south sides of the tower have rectangular lights on the first floor, while the belfry has large, rectangular, cross-mullioned, louvred lights in four directions. The west doorway is a reused 12th-century opening, originally round-headed but reset to a three-centred shape. Nook shafts support reeded imposts, leading to a roll-moulded head with a fillet to a billet-moulded hood with scallops on the outer face. A fielded and panelled door, with original hinges, provides access, above which is an inserted 18th-century oval window. A wooden lozenge-shaped clock face is visible on the second stage.

The north side of the nave curves outwards to accommodate a fireplace in the western gallery. East of this are two 14th-century windows with ogee heads and flat hood moulds. The vestry has single windows in its west and north walls; these have segmental heads and moulded reveals, divided into two halves by brattished transoms, with two lights below and four lights above featuring cusped, three-centred arched heads. An east wall features a 13th-century lancet window. The east wall of the chancel is notable for a fine 14th-century three-light reticulated window with three cusped, ogee-headed lights, a hood mould, and human head label stops. The south wall of the chancel has a similar 14th-century three-light window, as does the south wall of the nave.

Inside, the tower vestibule contains stairs to the gallery, accessed via six-panelled double doors. The nave is entered through a six-panelled door with an eared surround on the east side. The semi-circular chancel arch has a plain order, and a second, similarly arched opening, chamfered, leads into the vestry through the north wall of the chancel. A gallery from 1795 is characterised by a dentillated cornice and panelled front. A fireplace in the north end of the gallery was installed by the 6th Baron Monson, and the gallery is panelled to dado height. It contains an 18th-century Italian gilded altar piece with a painting. A 1919 carved oak screen, pulpit, and reader's desk are also present, along with 19th-century fittings, including the font. Two funeral hatchments are displayed in the gallery at the west end. A chantry board dated 1815 is located in the vestibule, and two 17th-century chests are found, one in the vestibule and the other in the vestry. A circular panel of stained glass depicting the Monson arms is set into the east window. Monuments include an alabaster wall plaque to Christopher Randes, who died in 1639, displaying a central carving of the deceased kneeling opposite his wife and children, set within a square frame with a fishscale cornice, and obelisks flanking a cartouche of arms with a memento mori.