Parish Church Of St Decuman

The parish church of St Decuman largely dates to the 15th century, with a 13th-century chancel. It stands back from Brendon Road on a prominent site overlooking the town. The church was restored and reseated by J.P. St Aubyn between 1886 and 1891, with further internal alterations in 1896, at which time a Caen stone reredos was erected. The church is constructed of local grey squared random stonework, with the chancel rendered. It has slate roofs with ridge tiles.

The church comprises a west tower, chancel, a three-bay nave, aisles, two side chapels, and a south porch. The west tower has three stages, with set-back buttresses, a higher stair turret, and battlements. It contains a four-light west window and three-light bell openings with a transom and tracery. A small statue in a niche on the south side of the tower likely depicts St Decuman. The north aisle is embattled with quatrefoils in the crenelations and has an embattled rood stair turret and four three-light windows. The east window is a three-light window with bar tracery. The south aisle has four three-light windows with tracery. The south porch contains a 15th-century doorway, and has a floor laid in a chessboard pattern of slates set on edge.

The interior features finely carved wagon-roofs with leaftrail carving running along wall plates, punctuated by angels bearing emblems of the Passion on the south aisle roof. Decorated roof bosses are also present. A carved oak rood screen has four-light divisions with two-light sub-arches. There is a Jacobean oak pulpit with a tester, and a Wyndham family pew with finely carved foliage and the date 1688. The Wyndham Chapel, located at the east end of the north aisle, contains good 16th and 17th-century family memorials. A 15th-century octagonal font has a plain bowl with narrow mouldings supported on carved angels, and an ornamented stem with panels. Late medieval encaustic tiles are set into the chancel floor, having been relaid in 1896, with others set in a frame on the north aisle wall. A large ledgerstone to Thomas Wyndham (died 1671) is located in the chancel, inscribed with a lengthy verse.