Church of St Cian

The Church of St Cian is a parish church, dating largely from the 19th century. It is constructed of rubble stone, with a squared grey rubble stone facade to the west end, and has a single slate roof with coped gables and a 19th-century bellcote. Sections of the side walls are of medieval origin, revealing some boulder footings on the south side. The west end features massive base stones to the corners. The church has a 19th-century red sandstone kneelers to the gable and a brown stone band across the front. Older photographs indicate that a small west rose window was once present, but has since been replaced by a chequer-pattern cross. The bellcote has a recessed pointed arch with moulded shafts, coping, and a cross finial. A large, enclosed, timber-frame porch with a red tile roof was added in the early 20th century. It incorporates a Tudor-arched entry with light on each side, extending upwards as a window band on the north and south sides, with bobbin-turned mullions and decorative timber work in the gable and bargeboards. Small lancet windows are located on either side of the porch. The north side of the nave has three small 19th-century lancets, two in brown stone, the right one in grey. The north vestry adjoining the chancel has a cross-gabled cap to a tall stone chimney, a west shouldered-headed door, and two small lancets on the north side, with a lean-to extension to the east. The east end of the chancel has a 19th-century pointed two-light window with a roundel and column shafts. The south wall features three lancets to both the chancel and nave. Within the porch is a pointed, shafted west doorway with a hoodmould and a double-ledged door with strap hinges.

The church has whitewashed walls and retains a late medieval roof structure of ten trusses with cusped double windbracing. The roof includes arch-braced collar-trusses, showcasing varied apex treatments, five with cusping to angle struts, and the eighth decorated further. It is suggested that the last two trusses may be plainer, as they would have been concealed by a ceilure or canopy. The church contains 19th-century wall-posts and corbels. A plain, octagonal font, dated 1638, is chamfered below to an octagonal shaft. Fittings include 19th-century stalls, poppyhead pews dating from around 1860, a plain nine-bay oak screen from 1886, an oak pulpit and eagle lectern from around 1896, and three mid to later 19th-century brass coronae. Monuments are found on the east wall, with one dedicated to Timothy Edwards, who died in 1780, featuring naval trophies and created by C Harris of London, and another to Captain Richard Lloyd Edwards, killed in 1854, with a scroll by W T Hale of London. A neo-Grec tapering plaque commemorates Colonel Richard Edwards, who died in 1830, by B Baker of Liverpool, and is located on the north wall of the vestry. Slate plaques remember Griffith Jones of Bodwi, who died in 1787 (in the vestry), Richard Dickinson (d.1828) and Jane Edwards (d.1826) (on the south wall of the chancel), and a marble urn memorializes Catherine Edwards (d.1811). A mid-19th-century neo-Grec monument, by W T Hale of London, is located on the north wall of the nave, dedicated to various members of the Edwards family (d.1704-70).