Church of St Ceinwen

The Church of St Ceinwen is a simple Decorated style church, featuring a nave and chancel that are structurally undivided. It includes a south porch, a west tower, and a north transept. The church is constructed from local rubble masonry, which is rendered and accented with limestone dressings. It has a slate roof laid in diminishing courses, with stone copings on most sections and tile copings on the north transept, along with a rendered ridge. The exterior showcases exposed stone offset buttresses, with diagonal buttresses on the nave, chancel, and transept, as well as angle buttresses on the west tower.

The nave and chancel consist of three bays. The south wall features a central gabled porch with a round-headed, voussoir arched entrance, while the eastern and western bays have pointed-arched windows with Y tracery. The north wall has a blocked round-headed arched doorway at the west end and a single square-headed window with three leaded lights to the east. The chancel and north transept are adorned with four-centred Perpendicular windows of three lights, featuring intersecting tracery at the heads.

The 19th-century west tower is composed of three stages, with a vestry in the lower stages and a belfry above. Entrance is through a segmental-headed doorway in the south wall, with other openings featuring pointed-arched heads and Y tracery. The lower stages include leaded lights in the west wall, while the north and south walls have blind recesses. The belfry contains louvred lights on the north, south, and west faces, with a blind recess on the east. It is topped with a moulded cornice and an embattled parapet, featuring tall pyramidal finials at the corners.

Inside, the nave has an exposed roof of late medieval collared trusses with arched braces. The north wall contains a blocked doorway, and the south wall has a blocked window. The chancel is raised by one step and features a fluted rail on widely spaced stick balusters. The pulpit is square and raised by three steps, with the upper part consisting of recessed panels with rounded, fluted angles beneath a dentilled frieze and moulded cornice. An early 13th-century circular font with a simple rolled base is set on a square plinth; its bowl is decorated with a relief floriate design of incurving pairs of stalks that terminate in reversed palmettes, alternating with fleur de lys. The south wall of the chancel displays a slate memorial to Thomas Williams of Quirt Esq, who died in 1739, and his wife Margaret, who died in 1728.