Church of St Iestyn

Simple rural church comprising structurally undivided nave and chancel with S transept and porch. Built of roughly coursed rubble masonry, the W gable wall rendered. Slate roof with stone copings surmounted by cross gable finials; W gable bellcote. The entry to the church is through the S porch which has a C15 truss as barge boards bearing floriate decoration in relief. The S doorway is of c1500 date and has a round head within a square frame; moulded jambs and sinkings in the spandrels. There is a blocked Norman doorway in the W gable. The C15 E window is of 3 cinquefoil headed lights in a pointed arched frame with hoodmould; the N window of the nave is a C19 rectangular leaded light. The S transept has a restored E window, a rectangular leaded light, with reset C14 dressings; the S window is of 3 stepped trefoil headed lights in a restored frame with C16 rear arch.

The nave and chancel are structurally undivided, with an exposed roof of 4 roof bays which included 2 pegged and collared trusses, probably C15. The easternmost truss is a late C19 chamfered, collared truss, the S blade of which rests on a massive hewn beam across the entrance to the S transept S transept has 2 pegged, collared trusses. The sanctuary is raised by one step and has a repaired C17 chamfered rail on shaped balusters, with square newel posts surmounted by globe finials. There is a C18 slate tablet on the N wall of the chancel which records benefactions to the poor of the parish. Reset on the W wall of the S transept is a C14 effigy stone of St. Iestyn; carved in low relief with the figure of a bearded man dressed as a hermit with cloak fastened by a broach and a hood. In his R hand is a staff and in his left he holds a scroll with inscription. The background is diapered with 4-leaved flowers. An inscription in debased Lombardic lettering reads: H[I]C : JACET : SANGTUS : YESTINVS : CVI : /WEN[LLIA]N [F : MADO] C : ET : GRVFFVT : AP : GWILYM : O[BT]VLIT : IN OB/LACOEM : ISTAM : IMAGIN/NE : P : SALVTE : ANIMARVM : S. The C 12 font is at the W end of the nave, an ovoid bowl, the outer surface carved and divided into 3 bands of which the middle one consists of a row of chevrons with truncated ends; the lower band is a series of crude round-headed arches; the upper band contains an equal armed cross with expanded ends, a straight sided spiral, 2 circles, an interlaced cross and a panel of chequerwork. To the E of the S doorway is a plain tapered hexagonal water stoup.