Church of St Govan

This is an Anglican parish church, dating from the 15th or 16th century, constructed of rubble stone with stone tile roofs, except for the nave which has 20th-century concrete tiles. The gables are coped with cross finials. The church is small in scale, comprising a nave, a west bell-turret, a south porch, a chancel, and a north vestry. The west end of the nave features a four-centred arched doorway with double wave moulding and a dripmould, thought to be from the 15th or 16th century, and a 20th-century planked and filleted door. To the right of the doorway is an ogee-pointed stoup, likely dating from the 14th or 15th century. The large gabled bell-turret is an enlargement of a 15th-century bellcote and includes a flat-headed two-light opening with cusped heads and louvres. The enlargement has vent loops on three sides and stone tiles to the gabled roof.

The south side of the nave has a two-light post-medieval grey stone window, the lights being segmental pointed with an unusual raised bead mould defining the lights and spandrel panels. A large porch has a segmental-pointed entry with wave-and-hollow moulding, presumably dating from 1625, and a coped gable. Inside the porch is a scissor-rafter roof, thought to be from the 19th century, with a bell hanging within, along with stone and timber bench seats, stone flags, and a 15th-century pointed inner door which is wave-moulded and has a 20th-century plank and fillet door. To the right, an eroded 15th-century three-light traceried window is deeply recessed, with ogee heads to the lights and a small lancet window below. The chancel south side features a single lancet window with an ogee cusped head, and a two-light window with cusped ogee heads and a 19th-century inserted transom placed low down. The east end has a 15th-century eroded purple stone two-light window with ogee heads, a quatrefoil, and a hoodmould, set within a battered wall base. The north side of the chancel includes a tiny lancet window and a gabled 19th-century vestry with a two-light north window with quatrefoil tracery. The north side of the nave has rood stair projection with a rectangular chamfered light, flat coping, and a large 19th-century flat-headed three-light window with ogee tracery.

Nave windows have been blanked with 20th-century shutters to protect bats. The nave’s barrel vaulted roof is clad in 20th-century pine and inset downlighters. Heavy 17th-century piers support the bell-turret. A low, possibly Norman, chancel arch is present. An early 20th-century timber pulpit and low screen are also features of the interior. A plain octagonal font stands between the bell-turret piers, and a benefaction board recording a gift from 1651 is located above it. The whitewashed plastered chancel has a 19th-century boarded timber barrel roof with carved bosses and a brattished wall-plate, with some panels painted with texts and religious scenes dating from the 1920s. A splayed wall at the northwest corner has a depressed-arched door leading to the rood loft. 19th-century rear arches are present behind the south windows. Decorative 19th-century tiles cover the chancel floor. The sanctuary contains 19th-century wrought iron standards flanking a wooden altar rail, alongside late 17th to early 18th century floor slabs.