Church of St Madoc

The interior is plastered and painted throughout. It is now almost fully Victorian in character, apart from the plaster, with only rere-arches and a few other features visible from the medieval period. The floor levels have been substantially changed as can easily be seen from the tower arch and the south porch entrance. The north arcade was built to suit the new floor level; three bays of pointed Early English style arches, the chancel arch was widened and an arcade with stiff-leaf capital put into the north wall of the chancel. The furnishings and fittings are all Victorian except for the chancel screen and rood-beam which is a c1920 memorial to WWI, and the reredos which is 1905, by Veall and Sant of Cardiff, the statues carved by Wormleighton of Cardiff. This last is set between tall cusped niches for saints, which are C13. The south nave window glass is dated 1910, by Gerald Moira, while the font is post 1933 in its present form although the bowl is medieval. The font is a Prichard design based on that at Beaulieu Abbey; it was carved by Crisp of Leamington. Panelled wagon roofs to both nave and chancel, both are Victorian. There are some good marble late C18 and early C19 wall monuments. There are two bells dated 1635 and 1677.

The church is built of random local sandstone rubble with some cut and dressed stones, particularly in the quoins. The roofs are of stone slates, except for the upper parts of both pitches of the main nave roof, which are of interlocking tiles; the tower roof was not seen but is presumably lead. The plan is of a nave with a north aisle, south porch, chancel and west tower. The south wall of the nave is in three bays with the porch projecting from the central one. The left corner has a clasping buttress, then comes a probably C17 two-light window with a dripmould. The porch is steeply gabled with a coping and apex cross. The doorway is moulded and has an ogee drip; chamfered pointed inner arch with a Victorian plank door with strap hinges. The right hand return wall has a single light window. Stone corbel brackets support the gutters. To the right is a 3-light Perpendicular window with cusped heads. Corbel brackets and stone verge to the east gable. The chancel has a lower roofline and is set down. First comes a single light window with a trefoil head, then a priest's door with moulded frame which is largely Victorian, then a 2-light Perpendicular window as before with a dripmould with label stops. Corbel brackets, stone coping to gable, apex cross. The east gable has a 3-light Perpendicular window with ogee heads and a depressed arch, this is a Victorian alteration. It shows signs of reconstruction, particularly in the cill, the walling is otherwise medieval, showing that the present window has a lower cill then the Decorated original. The north return wall has another single light window as before, and then comes the Victorian vestry. This has a 2-light trefoiled window in the east return and a larger one in the north gable with a quatrefoil in the arch above. Plain arched doorway. Coped gable with chimney as finial. The west return of the chancel and the north wall of the nave are mostly covered by the Victorian north aisle. This has three pointed trefoiled light windows and a swept roof. The west end of the nave wall has a small lean-to sexton's store and another clasping buttress. Tall square west tower with a pronounced taper. The tower is plain walling until the bell-stage which has a wide louvred opening on each face apart from the west face to the road where it has been narrowed to a slit. Castellated parapet on corbels above this.