Parish Church of St Tudclud

The Parish Church of St Tudclud is a small church built in the simple mid-19th century Decorated Gothic style. It features grey rubble with golden limestone dressings and slate roofs. The nave consists of five bays with trefoiled lancets, while the chancel is lower and has two bays. There is a bellcote at the west gable and a buttressed north porch. The south side includes a broad arched opening with modern glazing that once led to a now-demolished transept. The west end has two trefoiled windows with hoodmoulds and head stops, and the east window is a three-light design with geometrical tracery. A vestry is located in the south angle between the nave and chancel.

In the churchyard, near the south corner and west of the Post Office, stands a war memorial. This polished red granite obelisk bears the names of those lost in the World Wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. The obelisk is elevated on a stone plinth, which is made of hammer-dressed grey stone and features square-sectioned urn finials on the end piers, all enclosed by cast-iron railings.

The church has an aisleless nave, and the chancel arch along with the broad arch to the former south transept displays alternating voussoirs of dark and pale stone. The steeply-pitched arch-braced roof has wall-posts supported on stone corbels. The chancel contains two windows on the north side and a single window and door leading to the vestry on the south side. Inside, there is a simple 12th-century font on a square base. Near the font, on the north wall of the church, is a medieval stone grave slab from the old church and graveyard. The church also houses the Penmachno Stones, which are inscribed Early Christian stones dating from the 5th to the 9th centuries, brought from various locations within the parish. Four of these stones are mounted on the north wall of the chancel, with an additional stone located near the font.