Church Of St Nun With Attached Wall, Railings And Gateway To South

The Church of St Nun is a chapel of ease, dating to 1869. It is constructed of slatestone rubble with granite and limestone dressings and has a slate roof with crested ridge tiles, gable ends with raised coped verges, and a bellcote to the west. A cross finial sits on the roof ridge at the junction between the nave and chancel. The building is of Early English style.

The nave and chancel are built on a chamfered plinth. The south side of the nave has two two-light windows and one single light. To the north are three similar windows, all with limestone surrounds. The west side has three lancet windows, the central one taller, with hood moulds and a breather above. The chancel has an apsidal east end with four cusped lancets, the upper tracery being quatrefoil and with two-centred arches. The gabled south porch has raised coped verges and a cross finial, with a roll-moulded arched doorway and a plank door with good ironwork. A twentieth-century gabled south vestry has a three-light window to the west and a door in the south gable.

Inside, the nave features a four-bay arched-brace roof with carved stone corbels and windbraces, and the west window has nook shafts. A chamfered north doorway has a two-centred arch, and a door with strap hinges. The chancel arch is two-centred, with carved capitals and a hood mould with foliate stops. The east end of the chancel is vaulted, with ribs rising from stone corbels. A carved stone reredos features blank cusped arches, crocketed hoods, and carved panels. An aumbry is to the left and a piscina to the right. The date 1869 is carved above the south door to the vestry. Fittings include nineteenth-century wooden benches in the nave and stalls in the chancel with poppy head bench ends, an iron communion rail, a stone pulpit with marble colonnettes and open cusped arches, and an octagonal granite font. The church also contains brass candelabra and four corona lucis candelabra. All windows are lattice glazed.

The church was built in 1869 on the site of a fifteenth-century chapel, of which no remains survive. The church is enclosed to the south by a retaining wall in an L-plan which has a granite coping and twisted iron railings with trefoil finials. Stanchions have a cable moulding, and cross finials are present at each side of the pedestrian gateway.