Architectural Features
Slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles and stone coped gables.
Bellcote re-using C14 masonry including fragments of buttress of old tower, with two pointed openings with chamfered surrounds and hood moulds.
North vestry with lean-to roof, and west doorway re-using C14 masonry, with Caernarvon head, chamfered surround, pointed C19 relieving arch and plank door.
East end of vestry with pointed window re-using mid C14 masonry with moulded surround, two cusped, ogee headed lights with reticulated tracery and hood mould.
East end of chancel with large pointed window with C14 moulded surround, three C19 cusped ogee headed lights and rich C19 tracery, hood mould.
Lower parts of south side of nave medieval with C19 three stage buttress and two C19 rectangular windows with richly moulded surround and mullions, three cusped, ogee headed lights with hood mould.
Gabled south porch re-using C14 masonry.
C14 niche above with corbelled base and cusped, pointed head.
Early C12 font with beaded intersecting arcade and scalloped capitals.
The font is of Norman date. This church is going through the process of being declared redundant.
C20 pulpit re-using C18 turned columns with knops.
St. Gilbert, founder of the Gilbertine Order was vicar 1123-89.
He was an important and controversial figure in the Oxford movement, correspondent of Cardinal Newman and founder of a Brotherhood aimed at financing young men from poor backgrounds through their training at Theological College and thus into the priesthood.
Mossman was also notable as an historian and active Liberal politician and a crucial figure in the early Oecumenical Movement.
The Porch contains a First World War Memorial, consisting of a white marble tablet with a black border and an inscription as follows: “West Torrington.
The memorial is unusual in celebrating the safe return of their parishioners, including a female nurse, as well as commemorating those who lost their lives.