Church of St David

The Church of St David is a Tudor-Gothic style church, likely dating to the 19th century. It comprises a nave and chancel under a single roof, a south porch, and a west tower with a spire. The walls are constructed of snecked stone with lighter freestone dressings, and the roof is tiled.

The south porch features an open timber-framed gable with cusped trefoils, set on a shouldered lintel. Inside, it has stone benches and a south doorway with a continuous keeled, roll-moulded surround, along with a boarded door with strap hinges.

Windows are square-headed with cusped, ogee-headed lights, and a continuous sill band runs along the building. The nave has a three-light and a four-light window. A buttress separates the nave and chancel. The chancel has a four-light south window and a three-light east window with Y-tracery and a hood mould. A gabled vestry is situated on the north side, featuring a boarded east door with strap hinges and three stepped, cusped lights under a hood mould. An organ chamber, with an outshut roof, is on the vestry’s right side; a lean-to boiler room adjoins it. The nave has a four-light and a three-light north window, with a buttress between.

The two-stage west tower is of rubble stone construction. It has a two-light west window with Decorated tracery and a hood mould. Two-light belfry windows contain geometrical tracery and louvres, beneath a shingled, broached spire.

The nave and chancel have a seven-bay arched-brace roof, with cusping above the collar beam to form trefoils and quatrefoils; this is likely a reproduction of a late-medieval roof structure. The plain, round-headed tower arch is plastered. North and south windows have moulded wooden lintels beneath the wall plate. The chancel is more richly decorated, featuring decorative tiles and a sill band that extends over a segmental-headed sedillum and a pointed piscina, as well as over a pointed north vestry door with studs and strap hinges. A plastered, pointed arch opens into the organ recess. The rood screen from the old church was restored and reinstated, featuring a wide doorway with a triangular head, flanked on each side by five lights with restored tracery, and a four-panelled dado. A moulded cornice sits above.

The plain, octagonal font is from the 19th century. The pews are plain with panelled ends. A polygonal wooden pulpit stands on a freestone base, and the communion rail is made of cast and wrought iron. A wooden memorial plaque with a rounded top, dedicated to John Handson (died 1796) and his family, is located on the south wall of the nave.