Church of Saint David

The Church of Saint David is a parish church dating to 1897-8, designed by Prothero and Phillot. It is constructed of coursed Cilgerran stone with limestone ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The church comprises a nave, chancel, a south porch, a west bell-spire, and a north vestry. The building features ashlar coped gables, cross finials, and a thin octagonal bell-spire. The windows are ornate, featuring tracery, hoodmoulds, carved stops, and Cilgerran stone voussoirs. Buttresses and clasping buttresses flank three-light windows with varied circular motifs in the heads. The south side of the chancel has two-light windows with circles. A large east window incorporates five lights and three traceried circles. A single lancet window is present on the north side, along with a lean-to vestry featuring two two-light north windows and a chimney stack. The north side of the nave has two windows resembling those on the south, and the west end has a large three-light window with a circle.

The church has open rafter roofs with collars and king struts, more elaborate in the chancel. The walls are plastered and a moulded chancel arch is present. The north side of the chancel features an organ arch and vestry door. The interior includes pitch pine pews. Notable fittings include an exceptional font and pulpit relocated from the demolished chapel at Pentre (built in 1879 by J P St Aubyn), crafted from alabaster and marble, and the 1923 painted wooden reredos by Martin Tracers. The reredos is gilded and painted, depicting a high-relief image of an angel at the tomb, flanked by classical piers displaying coats of arms. Wrought iron communion rails with copper and brass are also present. The east window (dated 1900) and two chancel south windows (dated 1898) are signed by A L Moore of London. A C19 Gothic organ from Pentre is located on the north side. A south wall monument dedicated to L R Colby (killed in 1914), created by Maile of London, is also present. A low stone chancel screen forms a partial barrier. The pulpit stands on a granite base, featuring a three-sided design with alabaster panels, green marble shafts, two-light panels, shafted and cusped ornamentation with rich mosaic figures of saints, marble bullseyes in the spandrels, and ornate leaf cornices. Sweeping brackets support a traceried bookrest, with mosaic flowers in the tracery panels. A three-light stained glass window is on the south side of the nave, alongside a window from 1914, and a possibly later C19 re-used window. The west window contains 1898 stained glass in the C15 style. The font is made of alabaster, situated on a dark marble octagonal pier and alabaster plinth, with trefoil-headed panels on each side, green marble shafts, mosaic pictures, marble bullseyes in the spandrels, a carved lily cornice, and ornate ironwork.