Aberdaron New Church

The building is a parish church, now a chapel, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of large, roughly squared granite blocks with minimal grey stone dressings. The church has a low-pitched slate roof with coped gables supported by thin corbels. The architectural style is Neo-Romanesque, with a six-window nave, a northeast vestry, and a minimal chancel. A prominent west front features twin towers.

The west end is broad, with external square buttresses, a raised plinth and twin square towers, which include stair-towers likely relating to a former gallery. A broad Neo-Romanesque porch is positioned between the towers and features a coped corbelled gable and a large round-arched entry with chamfered piers and a heavily rusticated arch. The arch blocks are alternately chamfered to the design. Stone slab steps and stone paving are within the porch, with gallery stairs on each side of the entrance and an inner doorway with double ledged doors featuring scrolled iron hinges. The towers have narrow loops providing light to the stairwells, one on the outer face and one at the front, both with chamfered jambs and arched heads. The tower tops are Italianate in design, with a slightly inset chamfered plinth, a round-arched opening on each face, and slate pyramid caps on corbels. The main gable has a blocked recessed dressed stone two-light window with arched heads and an over-arch featuring stone voussoirs. The side elevations, each with six windows, feature long arched leaded windows with chamfered jambs and flat buttresses between. The northeast vestry has an arched western door and an arched northern window. The chancel is short and inset, with a lower roof and similar gable detail, and a two-light window similar to that on the west gable.

Inside, the church remains largely unaltered save for the removal of a west gallery. The roof is supported by five trusses, incorporating queen-post trusses braced from wall-posts. A plain, two-chamfer segmental-pointed chancel arch is present, plastered. A date plaque is positioned above the arched northeast vestry door. The most notable feature is the completeness of the surviving fittings, which are made of grey-painted timber. These include turned-column altar rails, a panelled square pulpit to the right of the chancel arch with a projecting moulded cornice and timber steps with a bulbous newel. A Gothic, five-sided reading desk is located to the left of the chancel arch, featuring cusped open panels and a moulded cornice/book rest. Box pews are at the front of the church, with open benches behind, all featuring unusual pierced finials to the bench ends, resembling pointed shovels. The benches have open backs, and the pews are arranged in two blocks, each divided into three rows of inward-facing pews looking over five or six east-facing pews. The panelling consists of long panels with roll-moulded doors. The south block has a quadrant curve taken out at the northeast angle to accommodate the pulpit. The floor is laid with quarry tiles. At the back of the church is a small, wooden octagonal font on an octagonal stem, intended to have a bowl inserted.