Church of St. Mary, Llanfairpwll

Decorated style church built of random local stone rubble with sandstone dressings and a slate roof with stone copings and cross sockets. Nave with SW tower and spire; chancel to E end with N vestry. Nave is of 3 bays articulated by offset buttresses; 2-light geometrical tracery windows, W gable window with relieving arch of hammer-dressed stone and sandstone label with facial stops mirrored by E gable chancel window. Tower has offset angle buttresses and incorporates the entrance porch in lower stage, bell stage with lombard frieze above. Bell stage has vents, as for windows, on each face and broach spire has carved animals to each angle.

The internal door to the church is pointed and set into a camber-headed surround. Nave of 6 roof bays, the exposed collar beam trusses have braces carried down to walls posts and corbels. Corbel W of door is of an angel holding a shield, E an angel holding a parchment, other corbels with plain shield design on facing panels. Chancel is raised by 3 steps and has modern panelled wagon ceiling, painted with flowers. Sanctuary is raised by a further step and has a granite cusped panelled reredos across E wall.

Glass: E window delineating biblical scenes, to Field Marshall Henry, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, erected 1876. W window, Christ and Apostles, to Sir Robert Walter Otway Baronet CCB erected 1876. N wall, E window, Christ the resurrection and the life, to P P R Morgan JP Dis d.1900 and C T S H Morgan d.1906. S wall, E window, Christ, with coat of arms above, to Harry Clegg, Plas Llanfair.

Fittings: Font; hexagonal granite, supported on 4 pillars with cross carved within rectangle on facing panel, 1851. Pulpit; hexagonal granite, with cusped panelled design as for reredos. Pews; pine, installed in 1964, from a church in Machynlleth. Moulded sanctuary rail on brass plated stanchions, re-positioned in recent years. New organ by R E K Edwards of Liverpool, installed in 1979, pipework housed in a gallery in W end of the nave.

Monuments: Nave, N wall (a) grey marble tablet with pink columned surround bearing a wreath and cross with banner reading; TYDDLAN HYDANGAU, to the men of the parish who fell in the Great War 1914-1918, (b) white marble tablet with black surround by T Gaffin, Regent St. London, to T Schunk Esq of Carreg Bran d.1865. Chancel, S wall, pink granite tablet to the men of the parish who lost their lives in the 1939-1945 World War.

Miscellaneous: An oak litany desk, to Arfryn of this parish d.1943, gift of her brother E E Pritchard.