St Elidyr's Church

The tower base, the S transept and the E part of the nave are steeply vaulted in the local manner without impost line. The chancel arch is low and narrow and has a double chamfer with an undercut stop. Two steps at the arch and one more at the sanctuary. Chancel and Chapel paved in black and white chequer tiles. A wide pointed arch leads from the Chancel into the Amroth Castle Chapel. This has a boarded barrel ceiling with ribs.

The nave is long and narrow with an arch to the W of the vaulted part. In the part replacing the Galilee porch the roof is constructed with arch-braced collar beams with the top compartment of the trusses of trefoil form. The pews are of the 1855 restoration. The pulpit is of oak on a stone pillar, and stands against the N pier of the Chancel arch. The late Norman font stands against the S wall of the nave and is square and covered in sculptured foliage. It has a good modern carved cover in late Gothic style.

The wall monuments include a set in the Chancel commemorating Rebecca Poyer and her three husbands. One monument dated 1725 is framed with square pilasters; one of 1743 has an egg-and-dart frame, Corinthian columns, marble shafts and base and a cherub in the pediment; Rebecca's monument, dated 1764, is framed with ramped volutes and a broken pediment on flat pilasters.

The stained glass of the S transept is of 1882 and the E window 1890. The nave W window is by R Coomber, 1993.

The main entrance gate is in a rubble masonry wall at the N. Iron Gate between stone piers, with a style and a mounting block. Near the porch is the base of a preaching cross, on which a C17 masonry fragment has been erected.

The medieval building comprised W galilee porch nave, chancel, N chapel and later vestry; N and S transepts, the N being the base of the tower; later W extension of the galilee and later S Porch and vestry. Rubble masonry generally, of local Carboniferous sandstone. There are traces of old white wash, especially on the N side. The masonry of the E and S sides, except the C19 extension, is irregularly coursed. On the N side, including the tower, the masonry is uncoursed with, on the W face of the tower, some rendering. The porch is in large rock-faced courses of limestone with chiselled margins. The vestry at the N of the Chapel is of local rubble masonry with limestone quoins. The roofs are of slate. Red ridge tiles with pierced crests. Coped gables.

The tower is of local type, unbuttressed and crenellated on a prominent corbel-table. Stairs turret at the NW with slit openings at each turn. The belfry has slate louvres to the E, W and S. There is a tall boarded opening to the N and beneath it a window to the ringing chamber with a large rough arch and a mediaeval window to the ground storey with two trefoil headed lights in a square opening.

All the windows except those of the tower are C19. The Chapel window is in Perpendicular style, the others in lancet style, some paired in plate tracery with a roundel.

A large blocked aperture in the E wall of the S transept has a nearly-flat arched head.