Church Of St Matthew

The Church of St Matthew is an Anglican church built in 1877 by architect F R Kempson. It features coursed stone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a plain tile roof, with slate used for the porch and stone copings with kneelers. The church consists of a single-cell nave with a south porch and an apsidal chancel that includes a north vestry. It is designed in the Early Pointed style, characterized by hood moulds with head stops over all openings.

The apsidal chancel has four trefoil-headed lancets set above a roll-moulded string. The vestry features a sexfoil round window above a plank door with strap hinges, which is set in a pointed chamfered arch. There is also an ashlar stack for heating in the east wall of the nave. The two-bay nave contains plate tracery two-light windows, while the south porch has trefoil lights in the flank walls and buttresses flanking the gable, which has a cross at the apex and a pointed chamfered arch leading to the doorway. The inner plank door has a moulded arch with strap hinges. The west wall includes a cinquefoil round window above two tall trefoil-headed lancets. The belfry features columns with foliate capitals supporting two pointed moulded arches.

Inside, the church has stained pine pews and choir stalls, with boarded ceilings shaped into broad pointed arches with ribs. The chancel windows have rerearches, and there are label moulds with head stops over a trefoil-headed piscina, all above a roll-moulded string with foliate stops, which is interrupted by a pointed chamfered arch leading to the vestry. The pointed moulded chancel arch has hood moulds with head stops and an inner arch supported by a short marble column with deep foliate capitals and springers. The stone pulpit is adorned with punched panelwork and a relief frieze, while the octagonal stone font is supported by four clustered Early English columns. This church is a fine example of a small rural church designed by a prolific architect based in Hereford.