Church Of St Denys

The Church of St Denys is a church dating from the 12th to 14th centuries, with a restoration around 1840. It is constructed of regular and square coursed lias stone with ashlar dressings and a lead roof. The church comprises a nave, chancel, and a west tower.

The south elevation of the chancel has a two-window range of two-light square-headed windows, with a square-headed south door between them. The north elevation has no windows, and the three-light east window features intersecting tracery. The nave's south elevation has a four-window range at a lower level, featuring a two-light window with 14th-century tracery, a three-light Perpendicular window with panel tracery, a two-light window with Y-tracery, and a two-light window with a square head. A clerestory above has a three-window range of two-light windows; the window to the left has a wood mullion, transom, and lintel. A sundial remains to the right. A south porch, reputedly from around 1696, has an inner door under a four-centred arch with spandrels decorated with quatrefoils, and a gabled roof with ashlar parapets. The north elevation of the nave has a single window at a lower level - a two-light 14th-century window. The clerestory on this side has a two-window range of two-light windows, with two large buttresses featuring slated copings to the left. The nave roof is shallow-pitched with ashlar gable parapets. A 19th-century vestry is attached to the right, with an ashlar gable and a lean-to roof covered in plain tiles.

The west tower has three stages. The lower stage has a two-light west window, with a small arch-headed door below. A large buttress projection on the south face contains a staircase. The bell chamber has four-light openings with transoms to each face of the third stage, topped by a castellated parapet with short pinnacles at the corners.

Inside, the double-chamfered chancel arch has plain responds. The nave and chancel have a Perpendicular roof structure with moulded tie beams in the nave. A stepped and chamfered tower arch is partially visible behind a 19th-century organ gallery at the west end of the nave. A north door opening is probably from the 19th century. Stained glass is present in all chancel windows, the north nave, and the south-east nave windows. Monuments include a late 18th-century black oval tablet on the north wall of the chancel, commemorating Elizabeth Castle and Elizabeth Markham, along with several 19th-century marble tablets. A Perpendicular octagonal font sits on a panelled stem with fluerons to the underside of the bowl. A hatchment is affixed to the north wall of the nave.