Church of St Trygarn

The Church of St Trygarn is a simple, rural Medieval church, dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, with later additions. It comprises a four-bay nave with a west bellcote and a single-bay chancel added later. The church is constructed of rubble masonry with weathered limestone dressings. The nave features stepped angle buttresses at the east end. The roof is covered in thin slates with stone copings, culminating in an ornate stone cross at the apex of the east chancel gable. The west bellcote is of dressed limestone, with a shouldered base and gabled cap, housing the bell in a rectangular recess.

The main entrance is at the west end of the south wall of the nave. This 15th-century doorway has a round head within a square-hooded architrave with moulded jambs, a moulded label, and trefoils in the spandrels. The nave windows are predominantly 19th century, featuring paired cinquefoil-headed lights in rectangular frames; there are two to the right of the south doorway, another at the east end of the north wall, and a single light to the west. The east window in the south wall is likely from the 14th or 15th century, a single pointed cinquefoil-headed light with sunk spandrels. The west gable has a late 14th-century window with simple tracery in a two-centred head, possibly originally the east chancel window.

The 19th-century east window in the added chancel has three trefoil-headed lights set within a cusped traceried pointed arch of two chamfered orders, with a hoodmould featuring floriate bosses. A reset 13th-century doorway is found in the south wall of the chancel, featuring a two-centred head, quarter-round moulded jambs, and a hoodmould with floriate bosses. This doorway was originally the north doorway of the nave and is now partially blocked, incorporating a cinquefoil-headed light.

The nave retains a late Medieval collar beam roof, while the chancel has a closely spaced 19th-century collar beam. The pointed chancel arch has chamfered angles and is stepped at the springing course. The sanctuary is raised by one step, with a simple rail supported on twisted stanchions with floriate brackets. The church furnishings are of the 19th century. On the south wall of the nave are two 18th-century memorials: a slate tablet commemorating Owen Morris of Rhydydefaid (died 1739), his wife Elin (died 1723), their son John (died 1740), and two of their great-grandchildren, and a marble tablet commemorating Ellin Hughes, wife of John Hughes of Glan yr Afon (died 1750), John Hughes (died 1756), Margaret Hughes, wife of Wm Hughes (died 1787), and Wm Hughes (died 1787). An early 20th-century marble memorial tablet is located on the north wall.