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Parish Church of:
Morval
The church of St. Wenn is a building of stone, erected in the 13th century and consists of chancel, nave of five bays , north aisle, south transept, south porch and a western tower of three stages, with low crocketed pinnacles, containing 9 bells all cast in 1715, except the treble, dated 1858 and the tenor in 1878: in the western wall of the transept is a curious incised slab to Walter Coode (ob. 1637), the last of the Coode who lived at and possessed Morval House and its lands, which passed in 1637 to the Buller family, ancestors of the present owners: the east window is stained and there are memorial windows in the transepts to the family of Buller, 1793-1849: a sun dial on the gable of the south porch is dated 1671: there are 230 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1542; marriages and burials, 1538 and are in good state of preservation.
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