Church of St Iestyn

The Church of St Iestyn is a simple rural church comprising a structurally undivided nave and chancel, with a south transept and porch. The church was built using roughly coursed rubble masonry, with the west gable wall rendered. It has a slate roof with stone copings and cross gable finials, and a west gable bellcote.

Entry is through the south porch, which features a 15th-century truss as bargeboards, bearing floriate decoration in relief. The south doorway, dating from around 1500, has a round head within a square frame, with moulded jambs and sinkings in the spandrels. A blocked Norman doorway remains in the west gable. The east window, dating from the 15th century, is of three cinquefoil-headed lights in a pointed arched frame with a hoodmould. A 19th-century rectangular leaded light is set in the north nave window. The south transept has a restored east window, also a rectangular leaded light, with reused 14th-century dressings. Its south window is of three stepped trefoil-headed lights in a restored frame with a 16th-century rear arch.

The nave and chancel are structurally undivided, and have an exposed roof of four bays. This includes two pegged and collared trusses, probably dating from the 15th century. The easternmost truss is a late 19th-century chamfered, collared truss, the south blade of which rests on a massive hewn beam across the entrance to the south transept. Two pegged and collared trusses are also present in the south transept. The sanctuary is raised one step and has a repaired 17th-century chamfered rail with shaped balusters and square newel posts surmounted by globe finials. A slate tablet on the north wall of the chancel from the 18th century records benefactions to the poor of the parish. Reset on the west wall of the south transept is a 14th-century effigy stone of St Iestyn, carved in low relief depicting a bearded man dressed as a hermit with a cloak fastened by a broach and a hood. He holds a staff in his right hand and a scroll with an inscription in his left. The background is diapered with four-leaved flowers, and 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."

A 12th-century font is located at the west end of the nave. It has an ovoid bowl with the outer surface carved and divided into three bands: the middle band consists of a row of chevrons with truncated ends; the lower band contains a series of crude round-headed arches; the upper band contains an equal armed cross with expanded ends, a straight-sided spiral, two circles, an interlaced cross, and a panel of chequerwork. To the east of the south doorway is a plain, tapered hexagonal water stoup.