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Freestanding Church of Ireland church, rebuilt c.1816 and altered c.1887, comprising three-bay hall with attached three-stage tower on square-plan to the west having a raised parapet with English-style crenellations and corner pinnacles. Shallow sanctuary/chancel added to east and a single-storey vestry added to northeast corner, c.1887. Pitched natural slate roof with raised limestone verge to west end and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to nave over cut stone plinth. Tower constructed of rubble limestone with ashlar limestone detailing, including projecting string courses, an ashlar limestone parapet and ashlar limestone pinnacles with ball finials over. Pointed-arched window openings to south side of nave with cut stone surrounds, cut stone sills and stained glass windows. No openings to north elevation. Pointed-arched doorcase to north side of tower with dressed limestone block-and-start surround and a timber-sheeted door. Roundel openings above to second stage of tower and pointed-arched openings to third stage/belfry with cut limestone surround and timber louvers. Collection of memorials commemorating the Meare Family of Meares Court to the interior, the earliest of which dates to 1704. Set back from the road in a quiet country location and surrounded by a graveyard with mature trees and mainly nineteenth century grave markers. Rubble limestone boundary wall and gate piers (on square-plan) to west having a wrought-iron gate.
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