Church of St Beuno

The Church of St Beuno is a Grade I listed building constructed from rhyolite rubble, resting on large exposed boulder foundations and featuring megalithic quoins. It has a slate roof that replaced the original thatch, with raised and coped gables. Some external rendering remains on the east and south sides. The church is a single cell structure with a tall, simple gabled bellcote at the western end. Added buttresses flank the west door, which replaces a blocked door on the south side. On the south side, there are two windows with paired lancets in unmoulded jambs, topped by a flush round arch of rubble, and a small single-splayed lancet window on the north side that lights the presbytery. The eastern window is a recent wooden 2-light design, and the northwest corner appears to have been rebuilt.

Inside, the church features a simple layout with five roof bays, divided by five 15th-century arch-braced roof trusses that support two tiers of purlins and a ridge, with the fifth truss against the east wall. The arch braces are chamfered. The upper part of the walls is boarded, and there is a stilted inner wall plate in the central bays. At the east end, a small high-set window on the north side has reveals for a corresponding window on the south side. Two steps lead up to the altar, which is accompanied by a 19th-century oak communion rail. The walls are unplastered, but an indistinct wall painting of St Christopher can be seen on a remaining area of plaster on the north side. The church contains limed oak pews, a pulpit, and a readers desk, along with a boarded parclose screen at the southwest corner by the door. A significant 11th-century cylindrical font, slightly tapered, is set on a later pedestal and base, featuring a continuous bold Anglo-Scandinavian 2-strand chain interlace design around the exterior of the bowl. There is also a fragmentary black-lettered inscription in Welsh noted on the east wall by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.