Church Of St Martin

The Church of St Martin is a parish church with a 15th-century tower, rebuilt in 1830 and later remodeled around the late 19th century. It is constructed from serpentine and elvan rubble, featuring dressed granite quoins, kneelers, and copings. The tower has some dressed coursed granite on the west wall, with rubble elsewhere, and includes a dressed granite doorway, plinth coping, string course, parapet cornice, copings, and pinnacles. The roof is low pitched with scantle slate and wide eaves.

The west tower, dating from the 15th century, is nearly complete and showcases Perpendicular windows with hoodmoulds and relieving arches. It features a moulded pointed west doorway, a three-light traceried window above, and two-light traceried windows on the second stage, with the west window glazed and the others louvered. The west door and the nave doors, set back in pointed openings on either side, are in a late 19th-century Gothic style with pointed traceried panels and heavily studded muntins, stiles, and rails.

Attached to the wall beside the right-hand doorway are two slate headstones: one for John Southby, who died in 1771 at the age of 34, and another for John Ralph, who died in 1795 at the age of 72. The nave features remodelled openings, including two west doorways, four windows on both the north and south walls, and a wider east window, all with pointed arches, mortar hoodmoulds, and granite Y tracery, likely replacing original sash windows.

Inside, the church retains its original shallow barrel or basket-arch vaulted ceiling, although the fittings date from the late 19th century. This church represents a late Georgian rebuild while preserving its medieval tower, which remains largely unaltered and serves as a notable example. The 1830 renovations were gothicized in the late 19th century.