Church Of St Rumon

The Church of St Rumon is a parish church built in 1868 by Edward Ashworth, with a tower added in 1887 that incorporates some earlier materials. It is constructed from coursed and square local rubble and features slate roofs with coped verges, crested ridges, and cruciform finials. The church is designed in the High Victorian Decorated and Perpendicular styles and includes a nave, chancel, north vestry, south porch, and west tower.

The exterior showcases a two-stage tower with an embattled parapet, a stair-turret, and buttresses on the west face of the lower stage. It has two-light bell-chamber windows and a two-light west window in the Perpendicular style, along with a west doorway. The nave has four bays with Decorated style and Perpendicular style tracery in the richly carved north windows. The gabled south porch features a pointed arch outer door with a single-moulding and a moulded inner doorway of two orders, leading to an unceiled wagon roof.

Inside, the church has plastered walls and flagstone floors, with a fitted carpet covering the nave and encaustic tile pavement in the chancel, which also has a fitted carpet in the sanctuary. The nave is supported by a four-bayed hammer-beam roof resting on simple stone corbels, and there is a panelled ringing chamber floor in the tower. The chancel features a ceiled wagon roof with large bosses. The tower arch, likely reused from an earlier tower, has a flat-pointed head, as does the doorway to the stair-turret.

The church contains High Victorian Gothic furnishings, including a pulpit, pine pews, choir stalls, a cased organ, altar rails, and an altar table. There is an octagonal font in the Perpendicular style, a small 18th-century chest, and two 19th-century wall monuments. The church has four mid-19th-century stained glass windows, with the north and south windows to the east of the nave featuring robust stained glass from 1953 and 1959 by James Peterson A.R.C.A of Bideford. The remaining windows have simple diamond-paned leaded lights.