Church Of St Matthew

The Church of St Matthew is a parish church built between 1849 and 1850 by architect J L Pearson, designed in the Decorated style. It is constructed from stone rubble with freestone dressings and has Welsh slate roofs. The church features a nave, chancel, south aisle, south porch, and a tower located at the east end of the south aisle. The tower is two storeys high and topped with a stone broach spire that has three tiers of lucarnes and a polygonal stair turret at the angle with the chancel. The windows are decorated with geometric tracery, including a prominent east window with five lights. The exterior is supported by buttresses with set-offs and coped gables adorned with apex crosses. The south porch is gabled, and there is a vestry on the north side of the chancel, which has a catslide roof and a polygonal chimney stack with set-offs.

Inside, the church is faced with Bath stone and features a three-bay arcade supported by short alternating round and octagonal piers, each with moulded capitals and bases, and double-chamfered arches. The roofs of the nave and chancel are arch-braced and include cusped wind-braces. The church retains its original furnishings, which include a wrought iron altar rail, choir stalls, seating, a pulpit, a lantern, a reredos, and a font with a wrought iron cover.