Church of St David

The Church of St David is a parish church dating from the 12th to 15th centuries, with significant restoration work carried out in the 19th century. It is constructed of local lias stone with Doulting stone dressings, featuring plain clay tiled roofs with coped gables and stone slates to the north porch. The church follows a cruciform plan, comprising a two-bay chancel, a three-bay nave, single-bay transepts, an added north porch, and an octagonal north-east tower.

The chancel is largely of 19th-century construction, consisting of two bays, with paired offset corner buttresses and a three-light, 14th-century traceried window without a label on the east side. A small cinquefoil-cusped lancet window is in the north wall, and a double-chamfered pointed arched doorway is located to the south, east of another cusped lancet. The south transept was rebuilt in 1894, with a plinth, double corner buttresses and a chimney to the east. The south window mirrors the chancel east window. The nave features similar buttresses, along with a two-light and a three-light elliptical arched, flat-head window without labels on the south wall, and the remains of a blocked segmental arched doorway. A four-light west window displays 19th-century tracery in a late 14th-century style. The north side has no windows, and the north porch is likely from the 18th century, featuring a plain segmental outer arch, and an inner doorway from the 13th century with single jamb shafts and an open semi-circular arch decorated with chevron and lozenge motifs. The door is at least from the 18th century. The north transept has a three-light, ovolo-moulded mullioned window with a flat head and a label.

The octagonal tower, probably dating from the 15th century, is constructed in three stages, rendered with string courses, corner gargoyles, and a battlemented parapet. The bottom stage has a cinquefoil-cusped light recessed in a hollow moulding on the north face, and a hollow-moulded pointed arched doorway on the east side. The second stage has a similar window on the north face, while the third stage contains two-light, 15th-century traceried windows recessed in hollow mouldings.

The interior includes a mostly 19th-century chancel with cinquefoil-cusped rere-arches to windows, a cusped piscina, and a narrow, almost triangular-headed squint into the tower. The 13th-century chancel and transept arches are pointed and chamfered, with jamb shafts featuring turned bases and capitals, and an added segmental arched opening to the south. Features include an early 17th-century octagonal-panelled pulpit with a door and a heavy cornice, a 13th-century stone font on a 19th-century base with a plain octagonal bowl and a plain shaft to a moulded plinth, a fragment of 17th-century panelling in the rear dado, and a painting of King David with a harp above the chancel arch. The earliest recorded rector dates from 1309.