Church Of St Martin

The Church of St Martin is a building constructed around 1893 by C. Harrison-Townsend, featuring frescoes by Mrs Lea Merritt, funded by Sir William Roberts-Austin. The church has a cement-rendered exterior with ashlar dressings and brick decoration, topped with a pantiled roof. It has a rectangular plan and is a low, single-storey structure with two heavy gabled and louvred dormers on each side. The layout includes a nave and chancel, with a vestry house at the east end. A bellcote is situated under the eyebrow dormer gable.

There are two round-arched openings above the cornice and a lower arched opening to the east. The church features four round-arched leaded windows set in deep splayed reveals, topped with brick tile heads. Buttresses flank the west end, which has round-arched doors set in a deep panelled reveal. The double doors are panelled and partly glazed. To the north, there is a round chapel, and to the east, a part-boarded vestry with a half-glazed door on the west face and a truncated stack above.

Inside, the nave and chancel are unified under a barrel-vaulted ceiling with a wood block floor. There are three large arches on each side, with gilded impost string courses leading to the windows and marble inlay above in the spandrels. The painted frescoes depict scenes from the life of Christ, including the raising of the daughter of Jairus, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Resurrection from the Tomb. A massive round arch at the east end includes a round niche on the north side of the chancel, featuring a gilt ceiling that shows the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. The east end is screened with thin turned balusters and a festoon cornice above. An oval marble font with a bowl on a hexagonal stem is also present.