St Mary Magdalene

C14 windows and doors, late C14 and C15 clearstorey and roofs, chancel remodelled externally and internally in 1751-9 and in 1770s for Salusbury family ('SS 1777' on rainwater heads for widow Sarah Salusbury), W tower rebuilt in brick 1800 (date on rainwater heads on E face). Restorations 1875, and 1904

Roofs of nave, aisles, and tower with short spike in copper, steep old red tile roof to porch

The nave has 4 bay arcades to aisles, octagonal piers with moulded bases and stiff-leaf capitals and pointed arches in 2 chamfered orders with labels terminating in carved stops

3 2-lights square headed C14 clearstorey windows on N side with ogee tracery to each light

Low pitched C15 open timber roof with ridge, 2 purlins, wall-post and heavy knee brace at E end on a broken corbel curved with a head

Floor of red tile with black bands

C15 buttressed oak pews in W part of church

N aisle has 3 square headed C15 2-light N windows, and late C14 N door

C18 lancet E window with painted glass similar to E window of chancel

2 groups of early C16 brasses, one to John Saurmel d.1529, on 2 slate slabs on wall with original slabs still in floor

Painted Royal Arms on canvas over N door dated 1800

Fragments of C14 stained glass in heads of middle window

Wall monument on W wall to William Chamber d.1728, by William Palmer

S aisle has C15 4-bays arch-braced timber roof with moulded central purlin and carved corbel heads

3 2-light C15 S windows and E window

C15 S door with pointed arch and square head externally with quatrefoil spandrels and label

At E end of S wall a C15 piscina with cinquefoil head and shallow pointed arched recess over with 2 C14 tiles with reversed lettering and carved inscription over of 1777 that they were discovered then 'which proves that King Offa was buried here'. Elaborate standing monument at W end of aisle to Sir John Spencer d.1699 attributed to E Stanton or Nost

A reclining figure in Roman armour and a veiled kneeling woman

Tall back in grey marble with carved pair of putti on cloud with a crown and palms

To W of door a richly carved octagonal C14 font with deep bowl carved in relief on each face with ogee-headed arch with varied tracery some Dec., some Perp

Openwork wooden spire to flat oak early C17 cover

Trefoil headed small hollow chamfered window on W with C13 inner frame with one remaining jamb shaft with base and cap and slightly pointed arch with roll moulding

Tall standing monument in middle of each side flanked by lesser wall monuments

Altar steps and ironwork altar rail sweep out in oval projection in front of apse, carved angel corbels carry curved braces to 3-bay ceiling, middle 2 on N re-used

Painted glass E window with Old Testament figure of God in middle with 2 small framed painted scenes in outer border with other heraldic fragments

Monument central on N side to Sir Henry Penrice d.1752 and his son by Sir Robert Taylor (signed on drapery) with allegorical figure, arm upraised, and foot on an anchor, before a pink marble obelisk with portrait medallion

Central on S monument to Sir Thomas Salusbury d.1773 by Nollekens (made 1777) with draped standing figures of man and wife before a rough barked tree with drapery looped over it on a grey background with a black sarcophagus

Other monuments Sir Thomas Salusbury d.1835 by T. Smith, and 2 memorials by Saunders, 1847 and 1855