St Sidwell

Slate roofs with ridge tiles and gable ends.

Plan: The original C12 church would have been cruciform, with nave and chancel in one and transepts to north and south.

In C14, the west tower was added, its third stage of the C15.

In circa mid C15, the south aisle with south porch were added.

one 3-light window, possibly C16-C17, of 3 lights, with chamfered mullions and surround, hollow-chamfered internally, with square head.

The north gable end has 3-light window, possibly C14, with three 2-centred arched chamfered lights, the central light taller.

C17 studded plank door with strap hinges

C15 3-light Perpendicular west window with cusped lights, 4-centred arch, hood mould and relieving arch.The third stage has C15 3-light Perpendicular bell-openings with cusped lights, 4-centred arches and hood moulds with pierced wooden louvres.

The west end has similar C15 Perpendicular window with some C19 restoration to the mullions.

The south side has four C15 Perpendicular 3-light windows, with 4-centred arches and hood moulds, some C19 repair to mullions.

The interior of the porch has slate floor and C15 wagon roof with carved wall-plates and bosses and ribs

On the right wall is a slate tablet to John and Katherine, with verses, 1696.

Inner doorway has wave-moulded surround with 4-centred arch with hollow-moulding, recessed spandrels with carved leaves

fine C17 studded door with fleur de lys strap hinges and sanctuary knocker.

The nave and chancel are roofed in one, with unceiled wagon roof, of circa early C19, with moulded ribs and wall-plates, and carved bosses

the bosses in the chancel are re-set C15, of high quality carving.

The south aisle has C15 wagon roof with carved bosses and wall-plates and moulded ribs.

The tower arch is 4-centred, with triple shafts with carved capitals and bases

C19 wooden screen across, incorporating panels of C15 carving.

2-centred arched doorway to the tower stair with C17 studded plank door with fleur-de-lys strap hinges.

5-bay south arcade, with Pevsner A-type piers with carved capitals, 4-centred arches with convex mouldings.

The chancel has C19 aumbry and piscina, with C19 carved wooden reredos in Gothic style

The south aisle has C15 piscina with 4-centred arch and similar holy water stoup by the south door.

Fittings: Fine C12 stone font in the nave, of Altarnun type

In the nave and aisle a good set of C15 bench ends, carved with interlaced knots, stars, shields of arms and a green man, and symbols of the Passion.

C15 rood screen with Perpendicular style carved panels and tracery

C19 carved wooden pulpit and reader's desk, in the nave, incorporating some panels of C15 carving.

C18 alms box in south aisle, with carved oak leaves.

C17 stocks in south porch.

Monuments in chancel: slate ledger stone to John Squier of High Hall, 1694.

In nave: a marble monument to John Couch Adams, who discovered the planet Neptune

In north transept: slate monument with marble surround and Gothic lettering, to William Edgecombe, 1679, with verses entitled "the mother's valediction"

slate monument with marble surround, unidentifiable, probably also late C17.

Glass: the east window of the chancel and the south windows in the aisle retain fragments of C15 glass, with Christ crucified, St Christopher and St Catherine and instruments of the Passion.

The east window in the south aisle has late C19 stained glass with the Virgin and Child, St George and St Sativola (the Latin rendering of St Sidwell).