Church of St Tysilio

Small porch with doors to the nave and to the Yale chapel; quarry-tiled floor. The door to the nave installed in the C19 restorations has centre hinges which allowed it to open partially before the west gallery was removed. The nave is compact with steps to the chancel and to the sanctuary. Red quarry tiles in the nave, encaustic patterned tiles in the chancel. The roof is in four bays with collar-beam trusses and V struts, plus a C19 segmental profile celure over the chancel in two bays with moulded cross ribs. Plain pews with open backs but prominent carved fleurs de lys on the pew-ends. The pulpit, to the left, is C17 and the choir stalls are C19 Jacobean style but incorporating a carved date panel 1615. The pulpit is octagonal, panelled with raised carving on the upper panels and a stone base. Carved oak altar rails with oak standards, crocketted elliptical heads to the openings. Tudor-arched door to vestry. At right is the open side of the Yale chapel, with two massive timber posts each carrying four brackets, one of the posts being original. These carry a moulded head beam with brattishing; the chancel celure and the last bay of the nave roof are extended down to it by panelling. The opening is curtained. The Yale chapel has a more decorative roof with cusping to the collar beams and V struts, and panels between the rafters. The font, beside the nave door, was the gift of William Corbet Yale and Isabella in 1875, in memory of an infant son; it is Gothic with four cherubs in high relief and a Welsh inscription. Wall memorials include a simple Baroque memorial to W V Pughe [1758] at left of the nave and Yale family memorials in their chapel: to the left of the east window a memorial with a carved mourning figure above, to the Rev. J Yale; to the right a circular bronze Gothic memorial to Lieut. Col. W Parry Yale. Also in the Yale chapel is the C14 coffin slab commemorating Tagwystyl, daughter of Ieuaf ap Mareded, inscribed in Lombardic letters. At the left of the chancel are the Royal Arms of George III, put up in 1810 at the expense of Watkin Thelwall, whose other benefactions are recorded on a board beside the nave entrance. A board at the right of the nave records the benefactions of Eliza Yale, 1882, and another to the right of the door records the grant of £20 to the restoration by the ICBS. The main east window is in memory of the Rev. J P Jones Parry and Margaret [1876], showing faith, hope and charity. The south window of the Yale chapel shows the Little Children and the Good Shepherd, in memory of J E I Yale [1896].

A small church the core of which consists of a nave without external differentiation of the chancel, in local limestone rubble masonry with dressed quoins. The Yale chapel to the south and the C19 porch and north vestry are in a slightly more regular similar masonry. The coped gables, finial crosses and the bell turret are all of the C19. Slate roofs with tile ridges. The porch, also C19, has a front gable with scalloped barges and a large timber finial. The east windows are original, in Perpendicular style, both of three lights. That to the chancel is equilateral pointed in a plain surround without labels. It has simple Perpendicular tracery with trefoils to the main lights and to the top lights. The east window to the Yale chapel has trefoiled lights under a flat head. The eastern south window to the Yale chapel is also original, with two trefoiled lights under a flat head; the western window in the same location is a C19 copy. The other windows of the church are all of the C19 restoration. In the west wall of the Yale chapel a tall lancet; a restored two-light plain window left of the porch; in the north elevation a three light plain flat-headed window to the west, and two large flat headed windows with two and three trefoil-headed lights respectively with tracery above. Plain three-light window in the vestry. The main door and the vestry door have plain equilateral arches, that from the porch to the Yale chapel is moulded.