Church of Saint Thomas a Becket

Anglican parish church, rubble stone with slate roofs and coped gables. Late medieval W tower, nave and chancel of 1853-5, N porch, N aisle and N vestry of 1881. Tall W tower, with corbelled embattled parapet and polygonal NE stair tower. W front of tower refaced in squared grey limestone in earlier C19 when two thin diagonal buttresses were added in tooled grey stone and a large Perpendicular Gothic 3-light panel-traceried W window was added above W door recessed under segmental-pointed arch with tooled grey stone voussoirs. Doorway is C19 ashlar segmental pointed, hollow-moulded. Board doors with iron scrolled hinges. The heraldic stone reset above was in a large W porch before 1853. String course above renewed stonework and small rectangular light at this level each face, and two-light pointed bell-light with cusped lights and quatrefoil in head. Stone voussoirs. Stair tower has numerous small ashlar lights. Nave has long roof over N aisle interrupted by four gables, one for projecting porch and three over large pointed 3-light traceried windows. Porch has moulded pointed entry. Nave S is plain with three C19 pointed 3-light Perpendicular gothic style windows. Chancel has large gabled vestry projecting on N with NE corner chimney, small 2-light N window with Caernarfon-type stepped heads to lights, and a pointed panel in gable with bi-colour voussoirs framing a small quatrefoil. E end has large 3-light pointed window with big sexfoil in head, hoodmould and stone voussoirs. Chancel S has one 2-light pointed window.

Whitewashed plastered walls, open roofs. Seven-bay N arcade with hoodmoulds and carved foliage stops. Chancel arch on corbelled wall-shafts with big heavily-carved capitals. Fittings: White marble font 1854, by E. M. Goodwin, given by G. Lort Phillips; pulpit, 1881, pierced stone with marble colonettes; reredos 1921 by Coates Carter, triptych with outer shutters, uncoloured figures and texts. Stained glass: E window 1881 by Mayer of Munich, Crucifixion; nave S window c. 1868 by Cox & Sons, Crucifixion. Memorials: C14 or early C15 slab to Richard le Palmer with a Latin cross in relief defaced head above, inscription in Norman French. John Bernardiston and family, c. 1734, large tablet framed by drapery, with cherub heads; Owen Phillips, died 1724 and Elinor Phillips died 1748, with side scrolls and broken pediment, by Thomas Beard of London; Elizabeth Eliot, 1780, with mourning female in classical landscape; William Jordan and family, c. 1802, garlanded cartouche; Owen Phillips died 1846, lozenge shaped in a pedimented frame, by J. Phillips of Haverfordwest; John Lort and family, 1848, by H. Phillips of Haverfordwest, draped urn with shield below; Richard Phillips died 1860, marble scroll, by T. Gaffin of London; Peregrine Lort-Phillips died 1861, scroll-type, by Bedford; Chambers family, 1852-72, free standing marble statue of praying woman against a tall pedestal, by Sanders of London.