Church of St Mary

The Church of St Mary is a Norman building, largely dating from the 12th century, constructed of local lias limestone rubble with a Welsh slate roof and gable coping. It features a chancel, a nave with a west bellcote and a south porch. The church retains Norman walling, with the exception of the porch. Visible external features include the remains of a blocked doorway in the north wall and a small, rectangular window in the north-east of the chancel.

The nave has a large, gabled south porch with a slate roof and battered side walls, containing two 18th-century memorials on the east wall. The porch’s entrance is segmentally headed with timber double doors. Inside the porch are lateral benches and a stone flagged floor, leading to a 16th-century door with chamfered jambs and a four-centered head, with a boarded door likely dating to the 20th century. The main nave wall has a plinth, with a two-light square-headed, mullioned window on the left of the porch and a three-light square-headed mullioned window with dripstone to the right. These windows have hollow chamfers and are likely late 16th century. The west end of the nave features a stepped stone bellcote on the gable, with a buttress to the north; the bell is dated 1637. The north wall of the nave is steeply battered, with disturbed stonework on the site of a former Norman doorway; otherwise, it is blind, though with a small rectangular window with a dripstone positioned high, likely for a rood. The chancel has a lower roofline than the nave. The north wall has a plinth and a round-headed, rope-moulded single light Norman window. The east gable wall is largely a Victorian rebuild, incorporating a three-light window in the Decorated style with trefoil heads to the lights and quatrefoils above. The south wall has a window consisting of two moulded, triangular-headed lights with sunk spandrels, set within a square head with a dripstone; this is also probably late 16th century. The east gable is topped with a cross behind a stone coping.

The interior is simple, with a two-cell Norman layout, and a four-bay 15th-century roof to the nave, featuring arch braced collar trusses with curved feet set into the top of the walls, and double purlins. The stone walls are plastered, and a stone flagged floor remains. A blocked arch is located opposite the south door on the north wall, and the simple Norman chancel arch has rough impost blocks, formerly likely including a stone screen (as documented in Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1901). A Victorian roof is present in the chancel. A corbel on the north-east wall supported a former bressumer for a rood loft. Furnishings are mainly Victorian, including a stone pulpit dated approximately 1870 and a Victorian roof in the chancel. An early 17th-century octagonal stone font, alongside a baptismal and burial license document dated 1607, is also present. Plain 18th-century floor memorials are found in the chancel, with two 18th-century wall memorials in the nave.