Robeston Wathen Church

The church consists of a fine tower, through which it is entered, plus nave, chancel, S transept and a large C19 N aisle. The masonry is of the local gritstone, hammer-dressed, generally irregularly coursed but the chancel masonry being more evidently brought to courses. The roofs are of slate. The windows all of the C19 restoration in a Perpendicular style.

The tower walls have no appreciable batter. A stairs turret projects slightly at N and W. The tower has a crenellated parapet on a corbel table except around the stairs turret. Its roof is hipped with a short ridge, and carries a weathercock. Belfry openings to all four sides. Above the W door there is a pair of flat-headed lights. The door arch is equilateral pointed, chamfered, and of two orders.

The church is entered through the tower on the nave axis. The tower base has a pointed vault, fully opening to the nave. The second and third floors of the tower are of timber.

There is a water stoup in the entrance, and there are marks in the tower base of the stairs which formerly led to a W gallery. The C19 N aisle is of similar width to the nave, and overlaps the chancel. The small S transept is now a Lady Chapel. Slate floor. Two steps up at the chancel arch and two more at the sanctuary; in the sanctuary the floor is paved with patterned quarry tiling. C17 oak altar. Throughout the church the timber ceilings are canted timber barrel vaults plus exposed tie-beams and king-posts.

The stained glass is mostly of the time of the main late C19 restoration, and is in deteriorating state. The E window is in memory of Archdeacon Clark. There is a good early C20 window at the S of the chancel. The N aisle windows are memorials to servicemen.

The font stands at the entrance beneath the tower: circular, designed with multiple arches, in black marble; it is said to be C17.