| Summary: | Parish church. C15, restored 1874. Random rubble local stone, slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles, porch and s aisle under same roof slightly higher than nave. Chancel and nave undivided, 2-bay S aisle, abutting S porch with chamber above reached by external stone stair, bell-cote W end. West gable end 2 full height stepped buttresses carrying relieving arch and gabled bell-cote hung with 2 bells, 2-light W window, escutcheon below relieving arch containing date and initials I. C. M. S; S wall of nave unlit, lateral stone stair of 11 steps to round-headed doorway to room over porch, plank door. Pointed arch-head double roll moulded opening to porch, c19 rafter roof, depressed tudor arch head doorway, c19 door; trefoil-headed lancet above porch, two 2-light cinquefoil-headed windows with hoodmoulds, 3-light uncusped at E gable ends, pointed arch lancet in N wall of chancel, to W two 2-light windows with hollow-chamfer granite mullions under square hoodmoulds with a stepped buttress between. Interior of porch rendered with flat plasterboard roof, otherwise featureless. Interior of church rendered. Two bay arcade of granite with depressed tudor arch heads, and octagonal capitals with panels of birds and christian symbols. Trefoil-headed hagioscope in NW corner of aisle looking into nave. Partly renewed ribbed and ceiled barrel vault roof with bosses and wallplate in chancel, original ceiled ribbed barrel vault to aisle with wallplate and bosses.
Octagonal pulpit with carved panels in memory of William Newcombe of Hankford died 1854. Norman font with cable-moulded base on c19 plinth. C19 decorative wooden reredos inset with slate tablets, altar table and floor tiles all coeval. C19 pews. C19 stained glass in e window. Floor carpet may possibly conceal tomb slabs. There is no electric light in the church. It is said that an inscription in the church, since lost, attributed its building to Sir William Hankford, chief justice of the King's bench, in the years 1414-22. The initials on the bell-cote are those of J. C. Moore-Stevens who paid for most of the 1874 restoration. |
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