Church of St Ishmael

Parish church, rubble stone with slate roofs. Nave and chancel possibly C14 with C15 with W tower and big canted three-sided NE stair tower. Tower has corbelled battlements and narrow louvred slots for bell openings, stair tower has similar battlements and weathercock. Two stone rainwater spouts on tower W front. Unusually long nave and chancel. Nave restored by Seddon with paired cusped lancet windows, at time of writing mostly boarded over, three windows to each side with door between first and second. Coped W gable. Chancel is windowless to N, E window boarded over and S has boarded window to left and blocked window centre.

Vaulted base to tower. The fire in 2000 damaged the nave roof of 1884, which had pitch-pine arch-braced trusses, the braces in two tiers, and with king-posts. but this is to be restored. C12 font, square with scalloped underside and round shaft. Said to have a piscina with ogee head possibly C14 in the chancel, short stone benches and traces of a rood stair cut out of the wall, blocking a lancet. Two blocked ogee lancets in the S wall. Chancel roof of 1878 of scissor-rafters. Fittings: pulpit and pews by Seddon. Stained glass: nave NE window c1927 by Kempe & Co, SS Aedda and Alban. Memorials: Emma Webb Bowen (d 1852) by T Jones; William Fortune (d 1881); Charles Webb Bowen (d 1881), by T Morgan & Son.