Church Of St Alkmund

The Church of St Alkmund is a parish church built between 1794 and 1795, incorporating a 15th-century tower. Designed by John Carline and Tilley, it is constructed from white sandstone and features leaded roofs. The church has a west tower and spire, a nave with lean-to aisles, and a short chancel.

The exterior includes a four-stage west tower made of coursed and squared rubble, featuring a Perpendicular west door with a square hoodmould and ogee niches on either side. Above the door is a four-light window, and the bell chamber has a three-light opening. The parapet has pierced tracery, and the angle buttresses terminate in pinnacles. The spire includes lucarnes. The aisles are finished in ashlar and divided into six bays by thin pilaster buttresses with recessed panelling. Most windows date from around 1900 and are in the Decorated style with stone tracery, while the west windows feature cast-iron tracery from 1795. The east window also has cast-iron tracery. A small porch with clustered columns supports a flat entablature over an Early English-style doorway located in the northeast angle.

Inside, the church consists of a single space with a very short chancel behind a chamfered arch supported by corbels. The high chamfered west tower arch features abaci that continue as a string course over the west wall, representing the only visible fabric of the medieval church. The ceiling is flat and panelled, with main beams supported by wall posts on corbels. The pews are said to date from 1795, while the panelling and ceiling, along with the organ and screens in the northeast and southeast chapels, are from around 1900.

The stained glass includes two panels in the north aisle from the early 20th century, and the east window features "Our Lady Queen of Heaven" by Francis Eginton, dated 1795, which is a painting on glass. Memorials within the church include a marble urn in a pedimented surround for Thomas and Mary Jones from 1715, and a memorial for Sir Thomas Jones from 1702, created by James Paget, which consists of an inscribed panel topped by a broken pediment on Corinthian shafts flanked by foliate scrolls. There are also various simpler marble slabs in the east and south walls of the south aisle, along with three re-sited brass figures from around 1500 mounted on a board.