Church of St Sabinus (Wollacombe Church)

The Church of St Sabinus, also known as Wollacombe Church, is a parish church dating to 1910, with the north aisle completed in 1965, designed by Caröe. It is constructed of squared sandstone rubble with stone dressings and has Delabole slate roofs with gable ends. The church features a nave and chancel, both with narrow aisles (the north aisle having a flat roof), an asymmetrically placed squat tower with a saddleback roof gabled to the south, and a single-storey undercroft at the west end.

The exterior is characterised by buttresses with weatherings flanking window openings, many with gentle ogee-arched lights and ferramenta. The north and south walls each have three four-light windows. The south side has two single-light windows at the west end; the left window is a stair light to basement steps located in the angle of the west end of the south aisle and the western extension of the nave, which has a separate hipped slate roof. The right window is above a projecting porch with a gabled slate roof and a single-light window to the front, including a blocked side door. A two-light bell-opening is on each side of the tower, and a three-light bell-opening faces the south front. A doorway is positioned on the east side of the tower. The chancel end of the south side features a two-light window, followed by two quatrefoil windows and a single-light window to the right. A three-light window is on the north side at the east end, and a clerestory gabled window of four lights with cusped heads and planted timber framing is positioned above.

A large, parapeted north porch includes two single-light windows on the north side and a pointed arched doorway, with a cavetto-moulded surround featuring pyramid stops, to the east. An inner door framed with ledges has an ogee-style arch. A five-light east window has a carved stone panel inset above. The west window is stepped with a relieving arch and a plaque on a buttress records the laying of the foundation stone in 1910 by Lady Chichester.

The interior is described as impressive, featuring a wide nave with narrow aisles and four-centred arched arcades with piers of square section and hollow chamfers, with pyramidal stops; there are four bays on each side, with the west end bay blind on the north side and an additional short bay on the west end of the south side. The chancel has three-bay arcades with green-stained oak posts, supporting segmental arches. A fine roof structure is present in the chancel and nave, including a waggon roof to the chancel with carved corbel bosses at the east end. The nave features an elaborate chancel/nave truss and ten arch-braced trusses, with moulded soffits; each intermediate truss has corbelled wall posts. Sedilia with quatrefoil windows to the chancel provide two seats, alongside a piscina with a scalloped base, and a tower door at the east end of the aisle, all with square heads and dropped keystones. An elaborate wooden chancel screen with a grille, ogee-headed at the centre with carved coving and a rood, is present, with an octagonal front added in 1916 featuring fleuron ornamentation. There is also a pulpit dating to 1914. Stained glass is by Nicholson Studios and by Kempe.