Church of St Mary

Plastered interior with 3-sided plastered ceiling. About 1906 ceiling was raised at W end to expose tower first floor opening which was made into musicians' gallery with early C18 style timber balcony on console brackets. Broad chamfered depressed arch to opening. Tower arch below is low broad, chamfered Tudor-arch. Chamfered segmental-pointed doorway to tower stair to right. Tower has plastered vault and tower base is subdivided by wall of c1906 to vestry with oval light with stone voussoirs over segmental-pointed door. In nave, a small NW fireplace of c1906, cambered arches with stone voussoirs to S windows and S door, pointed arch to priest's door. A large tie beam truss with collar at ceiling level and zig-zag bracing between may be a remnant of lost rood screen, it now delineates chancel. Font: C14-C15, octagonal chamfered below, on broader round shaft and C19 plinth. C19 pitch-pine pulpit. Attractive timber latticed altar rails, possibly of c1906. Memorials: fine floor slab in front of altar to William ap David Lloyd ap Thomas (d 1607). Chancel S wall armorial slab to Lewis Lloyd (d 1649) and Margaret Lloyd (d 1680); floor slab to Richard Cardwell, `geographer and land-surveyor' (d 1774). Good series of late C18 to early C19 painted carved plaques by local craftsmen: on S wall: William Price of Pantyneuadd (d 1809), by Hughes; Thomas Prosser of Bailie (d 1808); Ann Kingsey of Pencraig (d 1818); Matthew Kinsey of Caeau (d 1829), by J. Morgan; John Kinsey of Pencraig (d 1795); Thomas Prichard of Rhiwe Llandevalle (d 1826), by Hughes. W end William Williams of Penyrwrlodd (d 1779); Ann Lewis of Pentremole (d 1795); Elizabeth Davis of Penyrwrlodd (d 1797), by James; Humphrey Price of Pantyneuadd (d 1785), by James. N wall: Thomas Davis, surgeon (d 1806), by Hughes; Hugh Williams of Lwinpoll (d 1805); Phoebe Jones (d 1794), by Hughes; Jeremiah Kinsey of Pantygoli (d 1786) by Games; David Morgan of Pentremol (d 1788) (with two rustic angels); Richard Pritchard of Rhiwe (d 1780) (with 2 cherub heads); Margaret Price (d 1820), (oval with painted marbling), by Thomas of Brecon. In vestry painted benefaction board of 1830.

Church, rubble stone with stone tiled roofs, nave and chancel under one roof, 56 ft. by 23 ft., with S porch and large 4-stage W tower. Tower has NE stair tower, high plinth, moulded course over first stage, bull-nosed mouldings over next two, two-light bell-lights, another bull-nosed course under embattled parapet, slightly higher battlements to NE stair tower. Small S ground floor rectangular light. Nave has S porch to left, rubble stone side walls and C15 oak trusses with quatrefoil and trefoil cusping, the one to front with arch-bracing below tie-beam, the one at back without the bracing, and the one between with arch-braced collar and trefoil to apex. Two tiers of foiled wind-braces. Rough red stone stoup on left side, shelf on right. Pointed S door. To right, a big Perp style 2-light flat-headed window, apparently all C19, then a central blocked chamfered pointed priest's door, then end of tie beam which pierces wall both N and S, and then another similar 2-light Perp-style window. C15 segmental pointed E window, 3-light with ogee tracery. Four memorials affixed to E wall. Chancel N has 2 lancets with red stone heads, possibly medieval, rest renewed. Nave N has one hollow-chamfer lancet, also possibly medieval.