Church Of St Martin

The Church of St Martin is a parish church largely dating to the 1838-1839 rebuilding by Thomas Rickman, with a 15th-century tower. The church is constructed of ashlar limestone with a Welsh slate roof. It comprises a broad nave with integral aisles, transepts, a chancel, and a west tower.

The substantial west tower is the primary surviving element of the medieval church, featuring four string courses, diagonal corner buttresses, and a rectangular stair turret on the north side. A pointed arched doorway with a heavy hoodmould is set within the tower, above which is a restored three-light Perpendicular traceried window. Belfry openings are two-light, four-centred arched, with stone louvres and a string course, rising to a crenellated parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles. The remainder of the church was rebuilt in a thin Decorated style. The four-bay nave has tall two-light traceried windows, a crenellated parapet, and low-pitched gables with crocketed pinnacles. A central pointed arched doorway gives access to the north transept, above which there is a four-light traceried window. The east end is more elaborate with a three-light Decorated window, an enriched crocketed ogee hood with carved head stops, and an empty trefoil-headed image niche in the centre of the quatrefoil-panelled parapet gable. Small, flanking vestries with crenellated parapets are also present.

Inside, the nave has a queen post truss roof supported on small machicolated stone corbels. A high triplet of moulded pointed arches is set at the crossing, with slender octagonal piers. A moulded pointed chancel arch marks the transition to the chancel, which has a ribbed, pointed barrel vault. The original panelled reredos displays the Commandments, Creed, and Lord's Prayer. Flanking sedilia feature openwork tracery within ogee arches with crocketed tops. A raised choir floor was added at the crossing centre during an 1887 restoration, accompanied by a decorative wrought-iron screen and pulpit. Various 18th and early 19th-century monuments are present, including one to Edward Webb, a clothier who died in 1751, featuring a broken pediment, escutcheon, and flaming urns. A monument to Thomas Davis, signed by Thomas Webb, mason and architect of Tetbury, circa 1782, is located in the sanctuary. Earlier monuments, including a finely carved Baroque monument to Martha Bishop (died 1714) and one to Joseph Chambers (died 1722), are found in the west end, all featuring decorative borders. Numerous monuments are also located within the tower, the most elaborate being that of Thomas Davis, a clothier, who died in 1715. Plain 19th-century pews and a 19th-century octagonal stone font, inscribed "THE GIFT OF E. HEAD DALTON," complete the interior.