Church Of St David

This parish church dates from the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries, with late 19th-century additions. It was restored in 1877. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble, squared sandstone, tufa and sandstone dressings, with stone slate and tiled roofs. It comprises a west tower, three-bay nave, two-bay chancel, north nave aisle, south porch, vestry and organ chamber.

Tower

The tower has two stages and a hipped tiled roof with one gabled louvred dormer to each side and a weathercock to the ridge. The bottom stage has a battered plinth with roll moulding. The first stage contains a lancet to the south wall and a west window with three restored trefoil-headed lights, deeply moulded two-centred head and label with eroded head stops. The upper stage has a central lancet to each face except the west, positioned just above the string dividing the two stages. Above each of these lancets is a two-centred relieving arch. A clock sits above the west lancet. There is a weathered buttress to the south-east corner.

North Aisle

The north aisle is late 19th century. The west window has two cinquefoiled lights and tracery under a two-centred head. The north wall has a trefoil-headed lancet to the right and two windows each of two trefoil-headed lights with quatrefoil tracery, one to centre and one to left. The roof is catslide from the nave.

Vestry and Organ Chamber

The vestry and organ chamber has a north gable with end stack. On the east side are three juxtaposed trefoil-headed lancets and a square-headed doorway.

Chancel

The chancel has diagonal corner buttresses and a gable cross. The east window, dating from around 1400, has three cinquefoil-headed lights with moulded labels, head stops and a two-centred head. In the tracery are quatrefoiled and trefoiled lights. Two matching wall monuments to the sides of the window commemorate Dorothy Hassall and Reverend William Hassall, who died in 1844 and 1849 respectively. These have corbelled arches and cinquefoiled design.

The south side has a chamfered priest's door with two-centred head between two windows. The right window has a two-centred head with moulded label and two trefoil-headed lights. The left window has two ogeed and trefoil-headed lights beneath quatrefoil tracery and a two-centred arch.

Nave

The nave has one small 12th-century round-headed light to the west and two traceried windows to the east of the south porch, each with label and two cinquefoil-headed lights. The eastern verge has a gable cross.

South Porch

The south porch is 14th century with flanking buttresses and a gable with verge and gable cross. It has a deeply moulded two-centred arch with label and eroded unrestored head stops. Each return wall has one central loop. The roof has two bays, arch-braces to collars and cusped lower wind braces producing trefoils. Side benches are in stone; above the left bench is a carved stone with interlace pattern.

The south doorway is 12th century with a square head and joggled lintel, above which is a recessed detached undecorated tympanum. To the right of the doorway are the remains of a water stoup with pyramidal chamfer stops on which rests part of a drain with a crude carving of a human face.

Interior

The interior has 19th-century chancel and aisle roofs. The chancel roof has a collar purlin. The nave roof has 15th- or 16th-century trusses with collars supported by curved braces. Beneath are three moulded tie beams and moulded wall plates.

The chancel contains a deeply splayed 12th-century round-headed light in the north wall to the vestry and organ chamber. There is a piscina with flat two-centred arch, chamfered jambs and circular drain. A shelf in the north-east corner is formed from part of a coffin lid. Another coffin lid serves as the cill to the south-east window. The 19th-century arch to the organ chamber is two-centred with foliated capitals and circular abaci.

An altar table dating from around 1900, in oak, has three arches with two-centred heads, each arch divided into two "lights". On the north wall, a monument to John Symonds, who died in 1763, is in brown and white marble with open pediment and cherubs in the apron. On the north side of the east wall, a monument to Richard Symonds, who died in 1850, has a bas-relief in white marble of a mourning female beneath a weeping willow and low pediment with acroteria. On the south side of the east wall, a monument for Thomas Symonds, who died in 1818, is in black and white marble with large obelisk and urn above tomb and apron.

The east window has stained glass for James Symonds Esquire, who died in 1853, with The Resurrection in the centre light, the disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane in the left and the Carrying of the Cross in the right-hand light. The south-east window is for Lucy Phillips of Brynwyn, who died in 1884, inscribed "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God". An early 20th-century paraffin hanging lamp of brass and wrought iron hangs in the chancel. A candelabrum from around 1900 takes the form of an annulus with cresting of shamrocks and IHS motifs on twisted candlesticks.

The chancel arch is 12th century, round-headed and has two unmoulded orders with chamfered imposts. Flanking it are areas of squared tufa and beneath is a low 19th-century red and white marble screen.

The nave has a 19th-century arcade of two bays, the western respond of which cuts into the jamb of a 12th-century round-headed opening into the north aisle. The arcade has moulded two-centred arches with labels and clustered shafts to the central pier, water-holding base and stiff-leaf foliage. The western respond has a circular corbel. The west wall has a three-order two-centred tower arch without mouldings. Above is a two-centred arch to the bell chamber. The south wall has a tomb recess with chamfered two-centred arch.

The font is 12th century with cylindrical stem and bowl, the latter decorated with blind round-headed arches. The plinth is chamfered and has four archaic faces alternating with four rosettes.

The pulpit is early 17th-century oak with three sides of blind arcades, guilloche and reed decoration and acanthus spandrels. The lectern, from around 1900, is oak.

In the south-east corner stands a late 16th-century altar tomb for John Pye, who died in 1547, and Walter Pye, both of Mynde. Unusually, it features two recumbent male figures, one with a pointed beard, the other with a ruff. On the face of the tomb beneath the figures are bas-reliefs, the central figure presented looking directly forwards.

At right angles to the last is a wall monument for Walter Pye, Attorney General in 1602, who died in 1625, and his wife Joan. In black and white marble and alabaster, the couple kneel towards each other under an arched recess across a prie-dieu decorated with a swan-necked pediment. They are flanked by Ionic columns supporting an entablature and achievement. Beneath are six male and seven female weepers. The inscription includes: FIDES ET SPES IN CHRISTO SUNT ANCHORAE ANIMAE. Black marble floor slabs commemorate Robert Pye, who died in 1680, and Edward Pye, who died in 1727.

Above the pulpit, a wall monument for James Rankin Baronet of Brynwyn, who died in 1915, has a stone cartouche in 18th-century style on a grey/blue back panel. By the south door, a marble wall monument for James Phillips of Brynwyn, who died in 1809, has key pattern and urn against a black obelisk. Nearby, a brass plaque commemorates his son, who died aged 34 at Surat in 1864 while working for the Bombay Civil Service.

The south-east window has stained glass for Elizabeth Symonds, who died in 1857, illuminating the raising of Lazarus.

The north aisle has a 19th-century arch to the vestry similar to the arcade. Stained glass in the north-west window commemorates Edward Horn, who died in 1857, depicting The Good Shepherd. The central two-light window for Claude Cuthbert, who died in 1912, and James Rankin Baronet has the left light depicting Faith and the right, Charity. The north-east window is for Samuel Eccles, who died in 1880, showing St David.

A marble wall monument for Thomas Symonds, who died in 1831, has a large semi-circular headed arch with margin decorated in key pattern and sarcophagus design. A black marble floor slab commemorates James Pye, who died in 1646. Between the central and westernmost windows of the north wall is a wall monument in stone with white and brown marble in the form of a Gothic aedicule for Frederick Symonds, who died in 1879, with the maker's name inscribed HARDS/ROSS.