Parish Church of St Tanwg

The parish church of St Tanwg is a small, simple church built in the lancet style, likely dating to the 19th century. It comprises a three-bay nave, a two-bay chancel, and a short north aisle. The church is constructed of slatestone with squared blocks, and buff sandstone dressings. The slate roof has coped and kneelered gable parapets with a gable cross to the east, a tiled ridge, and moulded sandstone eaves.

The west facade is symmetrical, featuring a shallow gable with recessed buttresses at the corners. A central pointed-arched entrance is flanked by smaller lancet windows, with a group of three lancets above. All have splayed reveals and moulded labels, with a boarded door at the entrance. A gabled bellcote juts out to the west, with a segmental, chamfered bell opening.

The south side of the nave has narrow buttresses with sandstone gablets defining the bay divisions, and wide, pointed-arched lancet windows with splayed reveals and moulded labels. The north side is similar for the two western bays, with the third bay occupied by the north aisle, which mirrors the gabled design and window arrangement. The chancel is set back and stepped down, with further buttressing and splayed lancets on each side, culminating in a group of three lancets in its unparapeted east gable. A 20th-century corrugated iron lean-to, supported by brick piers, is attached in the northeast corner between the nave and chancel.

Inside, most plaster has been removed from the nave walls, except around the chancel and the south transept arches. The floors are slate-flagged. The nave has a seven-bay roof with straight-braced collar trusses, king-posts, and small raking struts. A plain west gallery has been partitioned in the lower section and features a moulded rail and sill-beam. A 15th-century Perpendicular font, made of sandstone and with blind tracery panels and quatrefoils, stands at the west end, believed to be from a previous church. A simple, octagonal oak pulpit with punched quatrefoil and trefoil-headed lights is also present.

A chamfered, pointed chancel arch leads into the raised chancel, which features a tiled pavement. The roof over the chancel is a thin, arched-braced collar truss design with braces returning onto moulded corbels featuring applied shields. Oak choirstalls in a simple Gothic style are present, with scrolled bench ends, alongside plain 20th-century altar rails. The east wall contains a shallow, pointed-arched recess holding the east window group.

The north transept is defined by a depressed pointed arch and houses a simple, early 20th-century Gothic organ.

Stained glass windows depicting the Assumption flanked by the Nativity (left) and a Mourning Magdalen (right), dated 1943 and dedicated to F J Parker-Jones, are found in the east windows. A panel depicting Christ as the Good Shepherd, with a similar dedication, is in the southeast nave window.