Church Of St Matthew

The Church of St Matthew is a church dating from the 12th and 14th centuries, with alterations made to the west front and the addition of a turret around 1666. It underwent extensive restoration and alteration by W.H. Bidlake between 1908 and 1909. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble, with the angles and west front made of regularly coursed sandstone. It features old plain-tile roofs and a coped west gable parapet topped with a segmental pediment. The church has a two-bay chancel and a three-bay nave, designed in the Romanesque style.

Most of the windows were created during the 1908-09 restoration and feature moulded arches and nook shafts with scalloped capitals. The chancel includes a single east window and a north window, while the south-east window retains part of a 14th-century opening to the right. There is a 14th-century straight-headed south-west window with two ogee lights. The nave has two windows on both the north and south sides, with the south-west window inserted into a blocked 12th-century Romanesque doorway that still shows part of a roll-moulded arch.

The west front features a slightly projecting 12th-century portal with pilaster buttresses, inner and outer arches, an eroded zig-zag arch with nook shafts, and a hood mould with remnants of nailhead decoration. The entrance has 19th-century studded double-leaf doors. Small trefoiled lancets on either side have cornices, likely from the 17th century. The gable includes a moulded window with cusped Y-tracery, and the turret has late 20th-century weatherboarding topped with a pyramid roof.

Inside, the church is plastered, with the chancel featuring a hammerbeam roof and a Romanesque-style chancel arch with shafts and corbels from the 1908-09 restoration. The nave has a collar beam roof from the 17th or 18th century, which may be partly reconstructed. Notable fittings include an 18th-century pulpit with fielded panels and a simple font of indeterminate date.