Church of St Ishmael

The Church of St Ishmael is a parish church built of rubble stone with slate roofs. The nave and chancel likely date from the 14th century, with a 15th-century west tower and a large canted three-sided northeast stair tower. The tower features corbelled battlements and narrow louvred openings for bells, while the stair tower has similar battlements and a weathercock. There are two stone rainwater spouts on the west front of the tower. The nave and chancel are unusually long. The nave was restored by Seddon and has paired cusped lancet windows, although most are currently boarded over. There are three windows on each side of the nave with a door between the first and second windows, and the west gable is coped. The chancel has no windows on the north side, the east window is boarded over, and the south side has a boarded window to the left and a blocked window in the center.

The base of the tower is vaulted. A fire in 2000 damaged the nave roof, originally constructed in 1884 with pitch-pine arch-braced trusses featuring braces in two tiers and king-posts, but this is set to be restored. The church has a 12th-century font that is square with a scalloped underside and a round shaft. There is said to be a piscina with an ogee head, possibly from the 14th century, in the chancel, along with short stone benches and traces of a rood stair that has been cut out of the wall, blocking a lancet. The south wall contains two blocked ogee lancets. The chancel roof, dating from 1878, is made of scissor-rafters.

Fittings include a pulpit and pews designed by Seddon. The stained glass in the northeast window of the nave was created around 1927 by Kempe & Co, depicting SS Aedda and Alban. Memorials within the church include those for Emma Webb Bowen (died 1852) by T Jones, William Fortune (died 1881), and Charles Webb Bowen (died 1881) by T Morgan & Son.