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Detached four-bay double-height Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1818/29, with single-bay double-height lower chancel to north-east, single-bay single-storey vestry to north, and single-bay two-stage entrance tower to south-west on a square plan. Pitched slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables, rendered diagonal chimney stack to vestry on rendered chamfered base, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Unpainted rendered walls with rendered dressings including stepped buttresses (diagonal to corners) extending into cut-granite gabled diagonal finials, rectangular recessed panel to first stage to tower, cut-granite chamfered stringcourse to second stage supporting rendered engaged octagonal corner piers, and moulded stringcourse supporting battlemented parapet having octagonal corner pinnacles rising into cut-granite polygonal finials. Pointed-arch window openings to nave and to chancel (one lancet window opening to nave) with cut-granite chamfered flush sills, chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over, Y-mullions forming bipartite lancet arrangement having decorative overlights (four-part lancet arrangement to chancel having overlights), and fixed-pane fittings having stained glass panels to overlights. Lancet openings to tower with cut-granite chamfered flush sills, chamfered reveals, hood mouldings over, fixed-pane fittings to first stage, and louvered panel fittings to top (bell) stage. Pointed arch door opening with chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled door having overpanel. Square-headed window opening to vestry with cut-granite chamfered flush sill, chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and four-over-eight timber sash window. Square-headed door opening with chamfered reveals, hood moulding over, and replacement tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Full-height interior open into roof with timber pews, carved timber Gothic-style lectern, carved cut-stone wall monuments (one incorporating bust portrait), timber panelled gallery to first floor to west on octagonal piers, open timber roof construction with open spandrels, and Tudor-headed chancel arch having moulded reveals. Set back from road in own grounds.(ii) Graveyard to site with various cut-stone markers, post-1818/29-present.
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