Church of St Tydecho

Built of local stone, with a slate roof between coped gables, boulder foundations to the W wall. It consists of a nave with a S porch at the W end, and a narrower chancel, all in a simple Early English style. Three paired and 1 single trefoil-headed windows containing diamond pattern glazing, and 2 trefoil-headed lancets each side of the chancel, and a similar triple E window. Gabled bellcote rises from the W wall, and contains one bell of 1734. Brass benchmark 0755S. The porch has a gabled and coped face with rounded kneelers, and an opening with a chamfered outer 2-centred arch, and a similar inner doorway.

The nave consists of 4 roof bays, C19 braced collar beam trusses, recently reinforced with steel ties and ring bolts. Exposed rafters. The walls are plastered and whitened, and it has a flagged floor, the central aisle being quarry tiled. A plain chamfered chancel arch opens to the 2-bay chancel; roofed on 3 braced collar trusses.

Fittings: a fine Jacobean table altar, now in the vestry, with baluster legs and moulded stretchers. Pulpit, the present altar table, and Communion rails all of oak, and 1930s. Font, at the rear of the church, probably late C12-early C13 and of Grinshill stone, an octagonal bowl tapered downwards, with a flat raised girth band and above, large lobes or scallops around the rim. It is set on a domed granite base, perhaps a millstone.

Glass: W windows in both N and S walls, in a Pre-Raphaelite style, SS Luke and Cornelius, to Sir William Roberts of Bryn Hall, d.1899, and Jonathan and Samuel, to W P J Roberts, d.1893.

Monuments: on the S wall of the nave (a) white marble on grey, by T R Jones, Llanfair, to Rev Owen Hughes (Tysswyn), rector 1907-13, (b) Fossil marble, to Hugh Llewelyn Jones, d. in the 1939-45 war. In the SW angle of the porch, externally, RH (Richard Hughes) Rector 1737. Also two brass plates, 1 to Henry Edwards, Dean of Bangor, d.1884, who was born here, and to David Rees, bellringer, d.1924.