Church of St Teilo

Impressive single space with white-painted brick walls supported by 6 laminated-wood trusses of dramatic form creating a nave and S aisle. The trusses are of an overall N-shape carrying the roof-beams that slope from N to S. A raking upright on the sloping N wall supports the end of a massive cruck-like curved beam rising from the floor, the bottom end back-to back with another raking beam rising up to the underside of the roof-beam. Wood-block floors, raised at W end by one step for choir seating. E end sanctuary is raised a step and paved with stone slabs. Whitewashed brick E end wall with door to right under concrete lintel into vestry. Whitewashed brickwork at SW corner, containing entrance porch. S wall has vertical strip windows, the longer lower lights blocked, 3 sets of 4 lights, one of 2 and then glazing at top only of 1-4-3 lights over doorway to SE porch. Concrete lintel, double doors. Porch is disused and infilled. SW porch has 4 strips of glazing, the lower lights blocked. Vestry has small kitchen and larger room beyond with single narrow lights set high, 3 in kitchen S wall, 7 in vestry S, 3 in vestry N wall. Fittings: sanctuary has simple rails with black-painted metal uprights to timber rail. Matching pulpit at L end. Contemporary matching pulpit, lectern, stoup, and candlesticks; stools and seat. Free-standing ashlar altar of massive slab with chamfered tooled edges, carried on tooled-stone piers. On E wall a black painted metal equal-armed cross with square crown-of-thorns motif around intersection and letters INRI flanking top arm. In NW corner a full-height square enclosure with wide-spaced vertical slats contains the organ (by G. Osmond of Taunton). Step at W end has choir stalls of similar design to altar rails. To N of stalls is monolith ashlar font, 12-sided bowl chamfered below to hexagonal stem, the 6 sides broached to 12-sided base.

Anglican parish church, blue-black engineering brick with bands of concrete and concrete eaves and parapets. Roof of a single long pitch to the S, clad in metal sheet, originally copper, and an almost vertical N wall hung with slates. Asymmetrical E and W gables, E gable windowless, the W gable with strip windows, the low S wall also with strip windows and the N wall with a full-height glazed bay at the left end lighting the altar. The glazing of the whole church is in metal-framed leaded narrow lights in concrete recessed frames, and the lights are in close-set vertical strips recessed in the brickwork. The W wall, now the entrance, has a plain doorway to right with concrete lintel, and double plank doors. The windows are in 7 strips, rising in height from right to left and each strip alternately of 2 or 3 lights one above the other, such that the divisions between set up a stepped rhythm across the facade. The N wall has a low brick plinth with concrete massive gutter beam with central rainwater-head. The slate-hung steep wall above slopes back, leaving the vertical-glazed bay at the left standing clear, this has copper-clad sides, metal-sheet sloping top (formerly copper) and glazing in 9 long lights with timber mullions and alternate transoms. The S wall has vertical strip glazing, first 4 strips (to porch) had 3 lights each, but bottom 2 are blocked in each strip. Main church has 3 sets of 4 strips and an additional pair, each with a long lower strip now blocked, then lights under eaves only 1, 4 and 3 lights over square porch with flat roof, concrete band at lintel height and concrete parapet. Blocked opening W, original main entry is recessed on E side, under concrete lintel, with double doors. Vestry runs E from SE corner, similar to porch with concrete parapet to flat roof, the 6 narrow single-light S windows are set to left and each is in a raised concrete frame. Windowless E end, 3 windows to N side.