Church of St. Womar

The interior is superficially almost all of the C19, its appearance dominated by the unusual chancel wall with five apertures. There is the round central arch, taken to be Norman, flanked by later side openings, taken to be C18/19, with square piers of bare stonework. The side openings have low segmental arches. The left side arch is supported at left on a roughly octagonal pier. Above these in the chancel wall there are two slightly dissimilar high-level openings each with a straight-sided pointed head. They are perhaps too irregular to be C19, but if their function was to add 'borrowed light' to the nave they might be C18.

The nave is roofed with C19 scissor-braced common rafters and the chancel with C19 arch-braced collared common rafters. The chancel floor is at the same level as the floor of the nave; quarry tile paving with some decorative encaustic tiles. Two segmental arches into the N aisle from the chancel and one from the nave constitute a N arcade. The arches from the chancel are separated by a circular pier. The arches abut the chancel wall just above an octagonal pier. The transept to the S has a remnant of a squint, and is vaulted. The tower is also vaulted, fully open to the nave, and has splayed sides.

The altar and rails are of pine, but the panelled reredos is in oak. In the nave the pulpit and pews are of pine. There is a stoup recess beside the N door. An interesting round-bowled font was retrieved from the farmyard and re-installed in the 1874 restoration. On it are four heads (four evangelists?) carved in high relief each above a foliage or cartouche knot. The hair of each face is long and bulky at the ends: a C14 or later style. There is also a slight moulding to the rim of the font. The pillar and base are modern.

The memorial to Thomas Davies, clerk, d.1715, at the S side of the chancel, suggests an ejected clergyman, 'deprived of all that he could not keep with good conscience'. (There is a memorial to a similarly circumstanced priest at Crunwear.)

Nave and chancel with a small S transept; N aisle overlapping nave and chancel, beneath a low continuation of the main roofs. Small tower at the W end. Masonry of a very variable local stone, hammer dressed, with larger stones at the quoins. There is a slight batter to the N and S walls of the nave and aisle, and a more pronounced batter to the W wall of the nave; the latter wall perhaps was strengthened when the tower was added. Roof of slates with bright red crested ridge tiles. Restored coped gables. All the windows and the N door were restored in 1874. The E window is three trefoil headed lights. Double pointed lights to the transept, single pointed light to the N aisle, and double square headed lights to the W of the aisle. There are circular windows at high level each side of the nave.

The tower is of three stages, with large offsets. Above the N offset is the tower door into the middle storey, which could be reached by a ladder. In the belfry storey there are double lights facing E and single lights facing N and W. To the S there is only a slit. The parapet stands on a corbel table, but it has lost any crenellations it may have had; there is now a plain coping.