Church Of St Congar

The Church of St Congar is a parish church located in Badgworth. It features a chancel from the 14th century, a nave with a south porch, and a north chapel dating from the 16th century, which includes a west porch and door. The church has undergone further work in the 16th century, including the construction of a west tower. The building is made of squared rubble with a slate roof and coped verges.

The tower is tall and thin, consisting of four stages with angle buttresses on the first and second stages, corner pinnacles, and a pierced parapet. The west door, dating from 1709, was restored in 1909. The nave has three bays, while the chancel has two bays and was extensively rebuilt in 1854. The nave retains large Perpendicular windows, while the chancel has been remodelled in a Decorated style. The south door to the nave is a 14th-century feature with quadrant mouldings and a door that has decorated tracery.

The north chapel includes a two-light decorated east window with a rere-arch, and a similar west window that has been blocked. Below the west window is a door opening with a cusped head, which is currently screened by the organ. Inside, there is a 14th-century tower arch with three continuous quadrant mouldings and a double chamfered chancel arch of a similar date. A 14th-century piscina is set in a gabled niche, opposite the tomb of Jon De Hampton, which is located in a recess with an ogee-headed archway. There is a squint to the north chapel that incorporates a piscina, and a two-bay arcade leads to the north chapel. Some 18th-century panelling can also be found inside.

The Jacobean pulpit is from the 16th century and features a stone base that has been reused from an earlier pulpit, with four figures in gabled niches. The font, supported by four clustered shafts, is likely from the 13th century. The stained glass windows are from the late 19th century and were made by George Kempe. There are five wall monuments from the 19th century, one from the 18th century in the north chapel, and a hammered brass plaque in an Art Nouveau style from 1901 on the south nave wall. The church also contains 16th-century benches with plain thin poppy heads, an 18th-century chest, a 19th-century organ, and head corbels for a parvise in the porch, along with 19th-century roofs.