Church of St. Mary

Nave and chancel of the same width, with a large N chapel opening to both. Small S transept and a vestry formed in the former S porch. The nave is narrow and has two blocks of pews. Two steps down from the N doorway. The tower base is two steps above the nave. The whole of the body of the church roofed in the C19 restoration with braced collar-beam trusses. The only vault is the base storey of the tower, the vault opening directly to the nave. The chancel is level with the nave but there are three steps up to the sanctuary. The chancel arch is high and wide, pointed, with late gothic undulating mouldings. Corbels of the rood loft remain in place and corbels in the left wall at the opening.

The N aisle chapel is separated from the chancel by two pointed arches standing on a round column and half-columns with simple caps. The columns are scraped stonework but the arches are rendered and have chamfers. Five corbels of the former roof structure survive in the S wall.

Beside the N door is a stoup with a second recess in the wall above it. Carved pulpit at the right and a carved lectern, with St George, at the left. The font stands near the door: it is square with no carvings except a line at the edges and has probably been scraped. Circular pillar and plinth on a small square base.

The chancel floor is of encaustic tiles. Hardwood altar rails with no gate, on good decorative wrought iron standards. A carved reredos in gothic style. The E window has the only stained glass in the church, evidently contemporary with the restoration, unsigned and anonymously donated. There are two corbels of the former roof structure in the N wall. The N chapel is now a Lady Chapel, the sanctuary fittings of which have been brought from the closed mission chapel of St Mary, Kilgetty (dedicated 1893, closed 1986). Opposite to the chancel arch are the steep stairs of the rood access and the opening at high level to the nave.

Tower, nave and chancel, with chapel at the N and a former porch and a transept at the S. The form is of interest with the chapel considerably overlapping the nave. The tower stonework is irregularly coursed with selected larger stones at the quoins. Other parts of the church are in a masonry of smaller stones, also irregulary coursed. The E wall has a slight batter at the foot. Only the former porch has larger stones at the quoins. The E face of the chancel and chapel is rendered.

Roof of thick slates with coped gables throughout. There is a carved stone cross finial to the E end and the stump of a cross on the E end of the nave.

The windows are generally pairs of trefoiled and ogee-headed lights under lintels. Only the window to the W of the tower has a hoodmould. There are trefoiled single lights to the S of the chancel, to the E and W of the S transept, and in two of the windows of the N wall of the chapel. There is also a small trefoil feature in the gable over the E window. In the former porch a square-headed light occupies the centre of the blocking of the old archway; the carved jambs are preserved for a height of about 1 m.

The nave doors to N and S are opposite to each other, that to the S now serving the vestry in the former porch. The best door is that in the base of the tower. It is more elaborately moulded and was evidently intended in the restoration for the principal entrance.

The tower is slightly tapering, and has a battered plinth below a string course near the base. The stairs turret is at the NE corner, projecting N only and of the same height as the main part of the tower. This gives a broad face to the tower towards the nave. There is a continuous corbel course at the base of the parapet and crenellations. Corner buttresses in the parapet suggest lost finials. There are paired belfry lights facing E, W and S, in the form of small lancets, and a single square-headed light to the N. The stairs are lit by slits.