Church of St. Cadoc

Church of St. Cadoc

The church is built of local red sandstone rubble and conglomerate, with Victorian and 20th-century work being much more carefully squared and in wider courses than the medieval work visible, for instance on the tower. It has freestone dressings, quoins and other patchings, with Victorian windows all in Bath stone and Welsh slate roofs.

The building comprises a nave, chancel, north aisle, shorter south aisle with a tower at its west end, a chapel to the south of the chancel, a south porch, and an organ chamber and vestry to the north of the chancel.

The south aisle is a three-bay structure with the tower at its west end. The south porch forms the first bay, gabled with a pointed arch doorway flanked by colonettes with a dripmould above and wrought iron gates. Two large four-light Perpendicular style windows stand to the right. The gables are coped with an east gable cross. The Lady Chapel abuts the east gable but is slightly smaller with a lower roof. It has two two-light windows in the south wall and a four-light window in the east gable, all in Perpendicular style with a gable cross. The chancel projects further east with corner buttresses. This is 1935 work, as is the more elaborate five-light window whose central light's mullions rise right through to the arch. The nave's west gable is visible behind.

The north wall of the chancel is entirely covered by a vestry with a gabled west end featuring a three-light window, a corner buttress, and two small windows and a door on the north wall, with a coped gable and cross. The north aisle has four four-light windows matching those on the south aisle, plus another on the west gable. The east gable end is coped with a cross. Both the west gables of the north aisle and nave have a battered plinth, as does the tower. The nave gable is the same size as the aisle one but its four-light window is not as tall, having a pointed arch doorway below it. It carries a coped gable with cross.

The square tower stands in the angle between the nave and south aisle, with its west wall in line with the nave. It consists of two stages, the lower rising to the ridge height of the nave. The west face has a small pointed arch door and two lancet lights above. The south face has three lancets; the lowest window on this side shows remains of cusping suggesting a date around 1300. A band separates the stages. Above is the 1887 Jubilee clock with three faces. Above that are the bell openings, two-light windows with trefoil heads to each face. The tower has a machicolated and castellated parapet; the entire top stage is probably late medieval.

The interior is plastered and painted throughout. The nave has a three-bay arcade to the south aisle and a four-bay arcade to the north aisle. These are of 15th-century Perpendicular type, though it is uncertain how much was replaced during the 1867 restoration. A two-bay arcade connects the chancel and Lady Chapel. The 1867 waggon roof is of early 16th-century type. The only other pre-Victorian features are two arches and two framed openings from a Norman arcade, though these appear to have been wholly reconstructed from original parts in 1867. All furnishings date from 1867 onwards. The organ and furnishings of the chancel and Lady Chapel date from 1935. Fine stained glass fills the large Perpendicular windows, installed in 1867 through the Charles Williams Memorial Fund. The east window of the chancel dates from 1953. Six bells date from 1881 and two from 1886; the bell frame was paid for by the Charles Williams Memorial Fund. The organ dates from the 1880s but was reconstructed in 1952 and given a case designed by A E Caroe.