Parish Church Of St Mary

The parish church of St Mary is a late 14th and 15th century building, restored in 1878, when the north chapel was added. It is constructed of coursed and random rubble-stone walls with stone dressings, and has slate roofs with stone gable copings. The church comprises a west tower, nave, a north chapel added later, a chancel, and a south porch.

The west tower has three stages with set-back buttresses, a plinth, and string mouldings. A half-octagonal newel stair is located at the south-east corner, projecting above the parapet. The west doorway features moulded jambs and a four-centred head, without spandrel carving. A three-light mullion window, with cusped and panel tracery, has an unstopped label. The bell openings are two-light, trefoil-cusped with a quatrefoil above, and also have unstopped labels. The tower is topped with a crenellated parapet and gargoyles.

The nave has three bays; its windows are four-light mullions with trefoil ogee heads. Y-tracery is present in the head of the central supermullion, with panel tracery in the interstices. Labels feature head-stops. The western window on the south side was completely renewed around 1980. The chancel has two two-light ogival windows in square heads with returned labels. Between the windows is a priest's door with straight-chamfered jambs and a pointed head.

The south porch has stone gable copings and a clay tile roof, with a pointed arch entrance featuring chamfered jambs, corbelled off. A tablet over the doorway reads "Restored 1878". The internal plank door, fitted with strap-hinges, dates to the 19th century. The window in the north chapel is a re-set 15th century window, consistent in design with those in the nave.

Inside, the 15th century tower arch has moulded jambs, responds, and capitals. The chancel arch, also 15th century, has panelled jambs, a soffit, and coupled responds with capitals. Two trefoil-headed niches are positioned on either side of the chancel arch. The nave has a 19th-century roof construction with high tie-beams carrying king-posts and splayed braces. The chancel roof is barrel-vaulted with a compartmented wooden ceiling, dating to the 19th century. Features include a medieval font with a cylindrical bowl, an enriched cornice, and necking, with a 20th century stem; mid-18th century communion rails with turned balusters and urn finials; and a wall monument to George Dawbney of Gorwelt, who died in 1612, and his wife Elisabeth, comprising a freestone panelled tablet with a painted achievement-of-arms.