Church of St David

The Church of St David is an Early Gothic style building dating from 1838, with alterations made in 1894. It comprises a west tower, nave with narrow passage aisles, transept, and chancel. The tower is constructed of roughly coursed and squared stone, while the rest of the building is of snecked stone, all under steep slate roofs. The three-stage west tower has angle buttresses and a main entrance on its north face. A wide west window and smaller lights are present in the second stage. The bell-chamber has paired foiled lights and an embattled parapet with crocketted finials at the corners. The nave has broad lancet windows in the west wall and is divided into five bays by buttresses, which also articulate and terminate the aisles, which begin one bay in from the west end. Broad lancet windows are found in the aisles, and the clerestory has plate traceried lights. The north transept features a stepped triple lancet window and a gathered chimney with a cylindrical shaft. The original foundation stone from 1838 was relaid in the transept in 1894. A porch in the northeast angle has a double-chamfered moulded archway with a hoodmould beneath an asymmetrical gable. The chancel is unusually high to accommodate falling ground to the east, with high-set windows – broad lancets with hood moulds – linked by a continuous sill band. A stepped triple lancet window is present in the east wall, also with a hood mould.

Inside, the church has a spacious interior with a wide span, likely reflecting the footprint of an earlier church. Polychrome brickwork in red and yellow is visible. The main entrance is through a narrow archway from the tower, leading to a small ringing platform; this unusual arrangement likely stems from the original design, which may have included a full gallery. A three-bay arcade leads to the narrow aisles. Simple chamfered arches are present to the arcade, transepts, and chancel. The nave has a complex, shaped, and coved boarded roof below the collar. The transepts and chancel have boarded keeled roofs. The chancel is richly decorated with a wrought iron and copper screen, tilework, and an alabaster reredos depicting The Last Supper. An alabaster font and a marble pulpit are also present. There is a fine series of stained glass windows throughout the church, including those in the aisles, north and south chancel windows, and the south transept window (dating from 1895), by Ballantine and Gardiner and J Ballantine and Son. The east window contains reused glass with a commemoration date of 1857.