St Barbara

extended C13, C14

c1500, chancel rebuilt 1624 for Sir John Franklin

West tower: C13 lower stage and c1500 upper stage with strings and short buttresses with offsets at west corners and centre of west elevation.

The belfry stage has 2-light louvred bell-chamber openings with 4-centred heads and above is an embattled parapet with corner gargoyles and pinnacles, Nave: north aisle added in C14 and has a lean-to catslide roof, a chamfered plinth and buttresses with off- sets at bay divisions

The south elevation of the nave retains some of its C12 masonry

has a C13 cusped lancet in the western end, an early C19 copy of this window in the eastern end, a 2-light C14 window and a large c1500 window of four lights with a 4-centred head.

The south porch is C14, has a chamfered eaves cornice and end buttresses terminating in pinnacles of probably c1624 date.

The south doorway is C12 and has ballflower mouldings on the outer order of the arch.

Chancel was rebuilt in 1624.

The 3-light east window has a round head and has relief carvings of the dolphins from the Franklin coat of arms in the spandrels and lions' heads on the hoodmould.

There is a 2-light north window and two ogee-arched south windows which probably incorporate some C14 tracery.

The priest's door has an unusual leaf moulding over the arch and above it is a datestone inscribed "ANNO DOMINI 1624".

Interior: the four-bay north arcade is in C15 style with 4-centred arches

octagonal columns but may be part of the 1624 rebuilding.

The 1624 chancel arch is similar in style and detail.

There is a C17 altar table

a C15 octagonal font with fleurons in quatre- foils decorating the basin and cusped pointed panels on the stem.

The pulpit and other fittings are C19.

Memorials: these are mainly to members of the Baldwyn family

in the chancel is the remains of a 1652 memorial and there is also a mid-C19 sarcophagus relief with draped urn.

In the nave and aisle is an early C19 and three mid-C19 memorials to the Baldwyn family and a pedimeted early C19 memorial to the Martin family.

Glass: there are some fragments of medieval glass in a south nave window.

The chancel windows have C19 glass.

It retains a substantial part of its medieval masonry

its Norman south doorway, the simple but unusual detailing of its C17 chancel

its ornate C15 font are of particular note. (VCH, Glos, Vol viii, p 249