Church of St David

The Church of St David is a Decorated Gothic style building, rebuilt in the 19th century on the foundations of an earlier church. It is constructed of rock-faced red sandstone with roughly cut Welsh slate roofs. The church comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, an organ chamber to the north of the chancel (originally a vestry), and a sexton's store adjacent to the tower, which was enlarged in 1970. The chancel and porch were extended during the 19th-century rebuilding.

The south wall features a tall, steeply gabled porch with a pointed arch containing a quatrefoil above, and a two-bay roof within. A dripmould over the arch continues as a string course to the sides. Adjacent to the porch is a large three-light window with interlace tracery and a dripmould, followed by a stepped buttress. The chancel has a single-light window and a two-light window with trefoil heads and a quatrefoil above, sitting on a string course that runs around the east end and supports a similar three-light window.

The north wall of the chancel is dominated by a projecting gabled organ chamber with single-light windows in its flanks and a two-light window matching those elsewhere in the chancel. Strip buttresses were added to the organ chamber in 1970. The nave also has a single-light and a two-light window. The sexton’s store, with a lean-to roof, is located in the angle between the nave and the tower and features a pointed arch doorway in the west wall.

The west tower is constructed of random stonework with more carefully dressed quoins. It has a pointed arch window above a blocked-in doorway, a smaller window above this, slits on each face, then a string course, after which the tower rises higher but diminishes. The bell stage features small pointed openings, except for the east wall, which has a larger square opening that is likely from the 17th century. A castellated parapet was added in 1880.

The interior of the church is wholly Victorian, featuring an arch-braced collar beam roof of four bays over the nave, and a wagon roof over the chancel. All fittings and furniture date from 1880, with the exception of a partly Norman font and a late medieval incised grave slab. The chancel has Minton floor tiles. The church contains a brightly coloured panelled pulpit with curved brass candlesticks, and the Royal Arms of Queen Victoria are displayed on the west wall of the nave. The east window serves as a memorial to Crawshay Bailey junior (1841-1887). Two iron tie beams were installed across the chancel in 1967.