Church of St Beuno

Built of rhyolite rubble on large exposed boulder foundations and megalithic quoins, with a slate roof replacing thatch between raised and coped gables. Some external rendering survives on the E and S sides. The church is a single cell structure with a tall and simple gabled bellcote at the lower, W end, and added buttresses either side of the W door, itself replacing a blocked door at the W end of the S side. Two windows of paired lancets in unmoulded jambs, with a flush round arch of rubble over, on the S side, and one small single-splayed lancet window on the N lighting the presbytery. The wooden 2-light E window is of recent origin, and the NW corner appears rebuilt.

The simple interior is of 5 roof bays, divided by five C15 arch-braced roof trusses supporting two tiers of purlins and a ridge, the fifth truss being against the E wall. The arch braces are chamfered. The upper part of the walls is boarded and has a stilted inner wall plate to the centre bays. At the E end, the small high-set window on the N side has reveals for a corresponding window on the S side. Two steps lead up to the altar, which has a C19 oak communion rail. The walls are unplastered, but an indistinct wall painting of St Christopher survives on a remaining area of plaster on the N side. Limed oak pews, pulpit and readers desk, and at the SW corner by the door, a boarded parclose screen. The important C11 cylindrical font is slightly tapered, and is set on a later pedestal and base. It is carved with a continuous bold Anglo-Scandinavian 2-strand chain interlace design around the exterior of the bowl. Fragmentary black-lettered inscription in Welsh noted on E wall by RCAHM.