Church of St Dogfael

The Church of St Dogfael is a High Victorian church, built in the 19th century. The building is constructed of tooled sandstone with Bath stone dressings and has a slate roof with a canted apse. A terracotta ridge and an iron cross finial top the apse. The church comprises a nave and chancel, a small bellcote recessed into the western gable, a south porch, and a north vestry. The design is characterised by a simple, geometrical shape with sheer walls and flush window tracery, typical of High Victorian architecture.

The chancel is slightly inset with higher eaves, featuring three cusped single lights at the canted end, and a two-light window on the south side featuring a Star of David head and sandstone voussoirs. The north vestry has a catslide roof, a door with a trefoil-cusped head to the west, and a notable battered chimney where the nave eaves meet the vestry roof; the east window displays idiosyncratic tracery. The nave has a single bell opening low in the gable, topped with a gable and iron finial, set within a square-headed opening with a blank cusped pointed head and hood. The west wall has a high battered plinth with a moulded string and a large rose window composed of five encircled cinquefoils. The south porch features a roll-moulded pointed doorway with stone voussoirs, a stone cross finial, and a ledged pointed door. A plain two-light window sits to the right, with a quatrefoil above. The north side incorporates a fine, inset medieval doorway, featuring crude roll mouldings with Celtic scroll detailing on the left jamb and a bifurcated foot on the right. A hoodmould and two crude head stops, likely from the 13th century, are also present. To the right is a plain two-light window with a trefoil above.

The nave roof has an arch-braced collar structure with a shouldered profile below the collars, echoed in the windbracing of the side panels. Diagonal posts are situated above the collars. The chancel arch is of ashlar, double-chamfered and stopped. The polygonal chancel roof is plaster-panelled with timber ribs. Pointed rear arches frame the windows, and the vestry door is also pointed and cusped. The floors are a simple design of coloured tile and slate, stepped five times from the chancel arch to the communion table. The church contains well-designed High Victorian fittings, including an octagonal ashlar font with a moulded ring and a stepped chamfered plinth, and pine pews, a pine pulpit with vesica-shaped panels, and stalls with open cusped frontals. Open sanctuary rails with arched panel heads and pointed indents are in place, alongside double gates with open cross motifs and a communion table matching the rail design. The panelled ashlar reredos has blue diagonally-set tiles below five panels featuring rich, five-colour tiles. A brattished cornice tops the reredos. A fine eastern stained glass window, dating to 1865 and created by Lavers & Barraud, depicts a Crucifixion scene with the Virgin Mary and John against a blue background. Inside the vestry sits a diagonally-set Gothic fireplace and a moulded-stone locker.