Church of St. Enddwyn

This is a medieval parish church, formed as a continuous nave and chancel with north and south transepts. A north vestry occupies the angle between the transept and chancel, and a southwest porch provides access. The building is constructed from mortared rubble masonry, with large stones used as quoins, and dressed freestone for the window and arch detailing. It has a slate roof with stone copings on shaped kneelers, surmounted by cross finials. A small bellcote sits on the west gable, and a tall chimney stack with an arched hood rises from the east gable of the north vestry.

The east window is a pointed arch with three trefoil-headed lights, and decorative trefoils and quatrefoils in the head. It is constructed with roughly dressed stone voussoirs and a moulded label with a lion’s head stop to the left and a floriate stop to the right. The 16th century south chancel window has two round-headed lights set within a rectangular frame. The north and south transept windows are tripartite lancets. Similar windows, also with two lights, run along the north wall of the nave. The east window of the south transept is a square leaded light, and a rectangular two-light window is set into the north wall of the vestry. The porch entrance is a pointed arch with chamfered jambs and a hood mould.

The church retains an exposed 16th century roof featuring arch-braced, collared trusses; the trusses in the chancel and south transept have cusped struts. An octagonal font is likely from the same period. 19th century fittings are present throughout, including a sanctuary raised by two steps with encaustic tiling and a moulded rail supported on twisted stanchions with floriate brackets. A paired, pointed arch recess is set into the north wall, featuring a sandstone surround, a moulded corbelled shelf at its base, and moulded arches with shaped pendants. The east window depicts The Nativity, The Crucifixion, and The Ascension. A marble memorial tablet, surmounted by an urn and set on a slate, obelisk-shaped rear plate, commemorates Catherine, wife of Griffith Owen, who died in 1824, and Griffith Owen himself, who died in 1826; he was Rector of the Parish and County Magistrate. An ornate ogee headed marble memorial on the north wall of the nave is dedicated to Lowry, daughter of Robert Owen, Clerk and Vicar of Caernarfon, and his wife Jane, who died in 1837, along with Jane’s daughter, who died in 1848, and Mary, another daughter, who died in 1849.