Church of St Wonnow

The Church of St Wonnow is a small, attractive church dating from the 18th century. It features a distinctive "dovecote-belfry" tower, a short nave, a north porch, and a small chancel. The church is constructed from sandstone rubble, laid in courses, and has stone slate roofs.

The square tower, divided into three internal stages plus a low wooden belfry stage, is unbuttressed and has sheer walls. It incorporates a restored two-centred arched west window with flowing tracery and a hoodmould; a small carved niche above this; a small quatrefoil to the third stage; and a squat stud-framed belfry with five wooden-louvred lights on each side, topped with a pyramidal roof. The north and south sides of the tower each have a trefoil-headed single-light window to the first stage, a square-headed lancet to the second, and a trefoil window to the third. The nave, which embraces the east corners of the tower, has windows with cusped ogee-headed lights on the north side (one window) and two windows to the south.

A prominent gabled porch in Arts-and-Crafts Gothic style is located at the west end of the north side. This features a swept roof, a heavily double-chamfered two-centred arched outer doorway with springers carved with an Annunciation, a carved Virgin and Child in the gable apex, and simple wooden-bar gates with ramped top rails. Each side wall of the porch has a simple arched two-light window. Inside the porch, wallplates bear raised commemorative lettering, including the date 1909. The inner doorway is furnished with a darkened softwood door in Perpendicular style, featuring vertical panels with Arts-and-Crafts carving to their heads.

The chancel has a square-headed east window of three ogee-headed cusped lights, and similar windows in each side wall. A Tudor-arched priest doorway is located in the north side. The nave is fitted with lightweight hammerbeam roof trusses and simple 19th-century benches. A hatchment commemorating George Milborne Esq. is also present. The two-centred chancel arch has two orders of wave moulding and contains a delicately-designed rood screen with a rood, in Perpendicular style and made in 1913 by G.E. Halliday. Halliday also designed the full-width, wooden chancel reredos, in Perpendicular style with pinnacles.

A large standing wall monument to George Milborne (died 1637) is located on the south side of the chancel. The monument is in Renaissance style, featuring a large strap-work apron, a deep plinth containing kneeling figures in relief (four sons to the left, seven daughters to the right), free-standing Corinthian columns, and a dentilled entablature framing a panel, originally intended for a recumbent effigy, but now containing strap-work decoration. Stained glass windows include two south nave windows depicting the Adoration of the Shepherds (1893, by Kempe), and an east window depicting the Virgin and Child (1903, by Comper).