Church Of St Cyr

The Church of St Cyr is a parish church with a 14th-century tower; the remainder of the church was rebuilt in 1854 by Henry Crisp of Bristol, with further chancel aisles and a vestry added in 1884. The building is constructed of coursed and squared limestone and has a stone slate roof. It comprises a nave and chancel with aisles, a west tower, a north porch, and a south vestry.

The north doorway, of round arched 12th-century style, is stated to be a copy of the original and is approached via a porch with a pointed arch and diagonal offset buttresses. The aisles have a five-window fenestration with Perpendicular tracery in offset, buttressed walls. The north doorway replaces one window on the north side, and the projecting gabled vestry replaces another window on the south side at the east end. The three-stage west tower has diagonal buttresses and appears squat due to the high roof of the rebuilt church. It features a moulded, pointed arched west doorway with a Perpendicular traceried window above. The belfry, possibly dating to the later 15th century, has two-light openings with timber louvres below quatrefoil tracery. A crenellated parapet tops the tower, with a square stair turret on the north side. A moulded string course connects the animal gargoyles on the tower.

The short chancel has an east window with curvilinear tracery. The interior is spacious, with five-bay aisle arcades. The tower arch is obscured by a large west organ loft supported by iron columns, beneath which is a traceried timber tower screen. A high, pointed chancel arch is flanked by lower, four-centred aisle arches. The nave roof has high cambered tie beams with short king posts and quatrefoil spandrel filling. Recessed flanking panels match the east window. Various 19th-century church furnishings remain original. The earliest memorial in the tower is a panel flanked by scrolls to Mary, wife of Thomas Smyth, who died in 1675 and an oval memorial with a wreathed border and escutcheons to Anselm Fowler of Moore Hall, who died in 1704. Various 19th-century memorials are in the south aisle. Stained glass in the east window is by Wailes of Newcastle.