Church of St Dona

The Church of St Dona is a rural church designed in a cruciform layout, featuring a south porch and a north vestry. It is constructed from snecked rubble masonry with freestone dressings, a continuous plinth course, and raking angle buttresses. The church has a slate roof, which includes a west gable bellcote, a weathered cross finial at the east gable, and a small squat stack at the north gable of the north vestry.

The east window consists of three ogee-headed lights set within a pointed arched frame, adorned with a hoodmould that has facial stops. Above this window, there is a reset datestone that is set upside down. Other windows in the church feature plain narrow pointed single or paired lights. The outer porch doorway is a pointed arch with chamfered jambs, and the head of the arch includes a facial stop with flanking wings. The inner doorway, dating from the 15th century, has a rounded head within a square frame, with casement-moulded jambs and spandrels that are decorated with a bird, a dog, and a human face on the left, and a winged cherub on the right. The north vestry has a narrow pointed arched doorway located in the west wall.

Inside, the church features an exposed roof with arch-braced collared trusses and king posts that extend down to wall posts on shaped corbels. The chancel is elevated by a step, and the entrance has facial bosses on either side of the wall, with an additional decorative boss in the east wall of the south transept. The sanctuary is raised by another step and includes a moulded rail supported by an open arcade of pointed arches, which have pierced trefoils in the spandrels. There is a pointed-headed recess in the north wall. The east window, a 20th-century installation, has three lights with tracery above; the central light depicts Christ against a sea background, while the flanking windows show St. Curig on the left and St. Dona on the right, with representations of a lion, dove, lamb, and eagle in the tracery above. This window is dedicated to the memory of Neil Preston, who died in 1962. The church fittings date from the late 19th century, and a gritstone octagonal font of uncertain date is located at the west end of the nave, to the west of the pointed arched doorway leading to the north vestry.