Church Of St Mary Magdalene

The Church of St Mary Magdalene is a parish church built between 1877 and 1880 by an architect named Cheiake on a new site, incorporating several elements from the old church that was demolished. The structure is made of coursed and squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. It includes a north-west tower, a nave with a north aisle and a south porch, a chancel, and a north vestry.

The north-west tower consists of four stages topped with a pyramidal roof. The lower stage is made of sandstone rubble, while the upper sections feature close-studded timber-framing that reuses old timbers. A 2-light window with a square head and two trefoiled-ogee headed lights is set into the stone north wall, with a pair of louvred vents on either side of the bell stage. The nave has 19th-century windows on the south wall, including a single-light window with trefoil-headed lights and quatrefoils and trefoils in roundels, positioned to the right of the timber-framed south porch, which has a 19th-century square-headed doorway. The north aisle contains two re-set windows, one of which is a late 14th-century window with two trefoiled-ogee headed lights in a square head, and an eastern 15th-century window with two cinquefoiled lights in a square head.

The chancel features 19th-century windows, including two 2-light windows on the south and a 3-light window with flowing tracery on the east. The vestry has a re-set early 14th-century window in the east wall with two trefoil-headed lights and a square-headed window with two cinquefoil-headed lights in the north wall.

Inside the church, there is a doorway from around 1150 re-set in the south wall of the tower, featuring square jambs and lintel, along with a semi-circular tympanum that depicts a carving of Samson opening the jaws of the lion. On the south wall of the nave, there is an incised slab dedicated to Richard Grevelhay and his wife, dating from 1473, depicted in contemporary civil dress under a canopy. The font is from the 13th century, featuring a round bowl with a round stem and a chamfered base. Additionally, a fragment of a 15th-century screen has been incorporated into a 19th-century screen in the vestry.