Church Of St Clether

The Church of St Clether is a parish church dedicated to St Clether. It has Norman origins, with a tower dating from the 15th century. The main body of the church, excluding the tower, was largely rebuilt in 1865. The church is constructed of snecked local stone, with a granite ashlar tower and a slate roof. The layout includes a nave and chancel, a five-bay south aisle, a south porch, a west tower, and a vestry. Notable features include a Norman font and three Norman capitals located in the south aisle.

The exterior features a west tower with three stages, a moulded plinth, string courses, and a battlemented parapet. There is a blocked west door with a four-centred roll-moulded granite arch, a three-light Perpendicular west window, and three-light Perpendicular belfry lights with slate louvers. The church has one and two-light lancets that light the nave and south aisle, as well as a three-light lancet east window. The 19th-century south porch may incorporate a reused pointed roll-moulded arch with stylised stiff leaf capitals and round columns. The inner south door has a 19th-century four-centred arch.

Inside, the walls are unplastered, and the nave features a 19th-century arch-braced roof with cusped bracing in the chancel. The tower arch is high, chamfered, and has a depressed two-centred shape supported by corbelled brackets. The five-bay south aisle includes three piers from the west that reuse scalloped capitals from three thick circular Norman piers, although the piers appear to have been rebuilt, and the pointed arcade arches are unmoulded. The two eastern bays have a central square pier. The furnishings and pulpit are from the 19th century, and there are 19th-century Commandment boards at the east end. The Norman font is very simple, featuring a round bowl with a rim and a roughly round shaft with a rope band.