Church of St. Morhaiarn

This is a Perpendicular church, likely dating to the 15th century, with a later 17th-century North chapel and North porch. The church’s structure comprises a nave and chancel that are combined as a single space, a small bellcote at the West end, the North chapel on the Northeast side, and a North porch. The walls are constructed of local rubble masonry with gritstone dressings, topped by a modern slate roof, stone copings, and a cross at the East gable apex.

The main entrance is through the North porch, featuring a four-centred archway with chamfered jambs and a moulded label. To the right of the porch is a single, trefoil-headed window within a square frame, and to the left, a paired trefoil-headed window set in a square frame with a hoodmould, both additions from the 19th century. Matching 19th-century windows are present in the North wall of the North chapel, with the East window being original. The East window of the North chapel is a Perpendicular design with three lights and vertical tracery, contrasting in style with the Decorated East chancel window, which is also of three lights with cusped tracery and a hoodmould. The South wall of the nave features a blocked doorway, dating to around 1500, which is offset to the left. This doorway is round-headed and set in a square frame with casement-moulded jambs and crosses in the spandrels, topped with a moulded label. To the left of the blocked doorway is a 16th-century window of paired trefoil-headed lights in a square frame with a hoodmould; to the right, a pointed-arched light, and farther to the right, a cinquefoil-headed light, all dating to the 17th century and set in square frames with moulded hoodmoulds. A similar cinquefoil-headed light is found in the West gable.

The round-headed inner porch doorway leads directly into the West end of the nave. The nave and chancel have eight roof bays, displaying exposed 17th-century arched collared trusses. The North chapel has four similarly-detailed roof bays. An opening to the chapel, dating to around 1500, has two bays with four-centred arches of hollow-chamfered orders, a central octagonal pier, and semi-octagonal responds, all with moulded capitals and bases. The chancel is raised by one step and has a floor of encaustic tiles with a moulded chancel rail supported by twisted stanchions with floriate brackets. A 19th-century octagonal pulpit is present, featuring recessed panels, paired cusped tracery details, a quatrefoil motif, and chamfered angles. The font is octagonal, with a narrow plinth and recut bowl. The West end of the nave contains a vestry, separated from the nave by a wooden screen with lower panels of diagonally set tongued and grooved panelling and upper panels with recessed panels containing cusped tracery details. A pointed-arched doorway, featuring floriate bosses in the spandrels and a moulded cornice, completes the screen. A slate memorial to John Lewis (d.1747) and his wife Elizabeth (d.1778) is located on the North wall of the nave. On the South wall of the chancel is a marble monument with fluted pilasters and a defaced achievement flanked by lamps, commemorating Richard Lewis of Bodwiney, who died in 1725.