Church of St Govan

Anglican parish church, rubble stone with stone tiled roofs except to nave, which has C20 concrete tiles. Coped gables with cross finials. Small scale, nave with W bell-turret, S porch, chancel and N vestry. Nave W end has four-centred arched doorway with double wave moulding and dripmould, C15 or C16. C20 planked and filleted door. To the right a ogee-pointed stoup, C14 or C15. Large gabled bell-turret is an enlargement of a C15 bellcote with flat-headed 2-light opening with cusped heads and louvres. Enlargement has vent loops on 3 sides and stone tiles to gabled roof. Nave S has 2-light post-medieval grey stone flat-headed window to left, the lights segmental pointed with unusual raised bead mould delineating lights and spandrel panels. Large porch has segmental-pointed entry with thin wave-and-holow moulding, presumably of 1625, and coped gable. Scissor-rafter roof looks C19, a bell hanging within. Stone and timber bench seats, stone flags and C15 pointed inner door, wave-moulded. C20 plank and fillet door. To right, an eroded C15 deep-recessed flat-headed three-light traceried window with ogee heads to lights and a small lancet window. Chancel S single lancet window with ogee cusped head, and 2-light with cusped ogee heads and C19 inserted transom low down. E end C15 eroded purple stone 2-light window with ogee heads, quatrefoil and hoodmould. Battered wall base. Chancel N has tiny lancet and gabled C19 vestry with 2-light N window with quatrefoil. Nave N has rood stair slight projection with rectangular chamfered light, projection with flat coping and a large C19 flat-headed three-light window with ogee tracery.

Nave windows blanked with C20 shutters to protect bats. Barrel vaulted roof clad in C20 with pine and inset downlighters. Heavy C17 piers supporting bell-turret. Low possibly Norman chancel arch. Early C20 timber pulpit and low screen. Plain octagonal font between bell-turret piers. Benefaction board recording gift of 1651 above. Whitewashed plastered chancel has C19 boarded timber barrel roof with carved bosses and brattished wall-plate. Some panels painted with texts and religious scenes in 1920s. Splayed wall at NW corner with depressed-arched door to rood loft. C19 rear arches to S windows. C19 decorative tiles to chancel floor. Sanctuary C19 wrought iron standards to wooden altar rail. Late C17 to early C18 floor slabs.