St Faith

Two storey C16 castellated tower: weathered angie-buttresses at junction with nave, string-course beneath battlements, paired semi-circular headed openings containing louvres to belfy, central weather-cock to roof, early C20 clock face on east side.

Two-bay nave and 2-bay chancel nave, C15 square-headed windows of 2 types.

To west of C15 4-centred arch priests' doorway with 2 concave and 2 convex continuous mouldings in similar window but with paired ogee-headed lights.

East window, probably C15, was apparently re-set in late C19 rebuilding of east wall of chancel: beneath transom are 3 trefoiled lights above each of which are 2 smaller lights.

Entrance through C15 doorway with 4-centred arch, a larger version of that to priests' door- way.

Interior: unarcaded nave has wagon roof possibly C15, formerly ceiled, of 15 arch-braced collar trusses and sets of rafters with crenellated wall- plates retaining signs of painted crossed dumb-bells or 4-leafed shamrock motif near site of former rood loft.

The enriched wall-plate continues from the nave into the chancel where there are 6 angels on each side, the eastern ones facing diagonally inwards.

Some of the angels appear to be late-medieval

Slightly pointed late C12 - early C13 doorway from nave into tower with very under-stated keel on roll-moulding above which is a deeply splayed lancet indicating that the tower is an addition.

Font: probably C13 is cylindrical on columnar shafts with circular plan base and undecorated.

Late medieval altar-frontal in frame on north wall of have has design con- taining bears

Piscina, probably late C12, under chamfered pointed arched recess is formed in a fluted corbelled bracket.

One pair of choir stalls, probably C15, the desks having 7 panels of blind ogee-headed tracery with poppy-heads at the ends, the seats moulded bench ends with crockets.

Oak eagle lectern dated 1914.

North side of choir has late C16 tomb of Blanche Parry, maid-of-honour to Elizabeth I, consisting of the deceased kneeling before a diminutive Queen under a coffered arch above a chest tomb with strapwork decoration all framed by Corinthian columns on pedestals supporting a cornice.

On south side a wall monument to Elizabeth Morgan died 1812, aged 21: winged putti above, fluted obelisks framing an oval inscription plaque.

East of south door of nave is a wall monument to Alexander Stantar and his wife Rachel, died 1620 and 1663: bas-relief of them facing each other, Alexander holding a skull, the whole set in a plaque with 3 Tuscan columns.

The Morgan monument is probably by the same hand as that in the churchyard (qv). (RCHM, Vol I