Church of St Aidan

The Church of St Aidan is a parish church dating from the 18th century, constructed of green granite rubble with Doulting stone window dressings and a red brick string course, eaves, reveals, and bellcote. The roof is slate with a terracotta ridge. The church comprises a nave and chancel under a single roof, with a north porch and a southeast vestry/organ chamber. The windows are plain lancets, united by a continuous moulded brick sill course.

The north side has a steep-roofed porch with a moulded, pointed, ashlar doorway and a single order of columns. It has a brick plinth and eaves, slate angles, a collar rafter roof, and an inner door with an ashlar pointed head and a brick hoodmould. Two lancets are positioned to the right, and the sill course steps up to denote the chancel. A single chancel north window is present, with the sill course stepping up at the northeast angle and a granite northeast cornerstone. The east end features red brick gable coping, and the sill course steps up under a triplet of stepped lancets with brick hoods. A lean-to southeast vestry has a small, plate-traceried, pointed east window, cross-mullioned with an apex roundel. A brick hood and stepped sill course are also present. The south side of the vestry has two two-light, square-headed windows to the right with blank ashlar trefoil heads and a similar single light to the left, set below an organ-chamber gable. Sill and eaves courses run across the vestry, and a west-side door is set beneath a sill course carried over as a hoodmould and an ashlar pointed head. The nave's south wall contains three lancets; the sill course has eroded and been cemented over. The west end has a red brick double bellcote with square-headed openings and a steep hipped slate roof with gablets, a terracotta ridge and an iron cross finial. Two tall west lancets feature brick hoods and a blank ashlar quatrefoil roundel within a brick surround.

The interior is plastered, with a moulded brick sill course. A fine, open timber, eight-bay roof has double purlins and arch-braced collar trusses. Bracketed rood-beam marks the chancel, and the chancel roof has windbracing. The church retains a complete set of original pews, a matching panelled pulpit and choir rails dating from 1889, both of Gothic design. The pulpit features figured wood colonnettes to the panels, and the rails have poppyhead finials and pierced panels. The chancel has a plastered south arch to the organ chamber and a pointed vestry door adjoining, with a stepped sill under the east window. A panelled ashlar reredos exists, currently painted white, with central crosses and quatrefoil panels. At the west end is a 12th-century scalloped font set on a 19th-century plain cylindrical base, originally from the lost church of St Teilo, St Elvis. Within the porch is a large, cross-inscribed stone, also from St Elvis Farm, of pre-Norman date, discovered in 1925.