At time of listing church is open during daytime
PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: Some fixtures were rescued from the old church. The communion rail is C18 with turned balusters, and spans the chancel. On the south wall, next to the pulpit, is a rare wrought-iron hour-glass stand, dated 1662 and with the initials SS (Samuel Steadman, the incumbent). It is fixed to the wall by an iron bracket. The chancel screen, dated 1931 on a plaque, is three bays, with open-arcaded dado to the wider outer bays, ogee-headed tracery in the main lights, beneath cornice and brattishing. The central bay has projecting pinnacles, surmounted by angels, and an ogee arch surmounted by a cross. The octagonal font is on a broad pedestal and base. The freestone polygonal pulpit has open Gothic panelling and marble shafts, very dated by the 1920s. Pews have plain ends with sunk quatrefoils incorporated into the arm rests. There is a metal memorial plaque to Col George Benson, killed in 1900 in the Boer War. Two stained-glass windows are by Kempe & Tower. The east window depicts the Annunciation, originally by C.E. Kempe and rescued from the fire, but restored and reinstated in 1937. The chancel south window shows the crucifixion, 1933.
HISTORY: Set in a round churchyard away from the village, suggesting an early origin. The earliest datable features were the C14 chancel windows, but the church suffered a serious fire in 1928 and was subsequently substantially rebuilt by Nicholson & Clarke of Hereford. Positions of the windows remained the same, but only the nave west window survived the fire. Some fixtures were saved, including the communion rails, hourglass holder, and a window by Kempe, restored by Kempe & Tower before reinstatement.
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