St Machreth's Church

St Machreth's Church is a building of rubble construction, with sandstone dressings. It dates to the early 19th century, with a later western tower. The church has a medium-pitched slate roof with plain eaves cornices, ridge tiles, and gable crosses. A plain gabled porch has a 4-centred arched entrance, stopped-chamfered with an inner arch, and a pointed-arched inner entrance with boarded double doors. To the right of the porch are two arched plate tracery windows with oculi, separated by stepped buttresses. A plain chamfered lancet window is situated to the right again. A further buttress marks the intersection of the nave and chancel. The chancel is stepped down and set back slightly, featuring two lancet windows with inner roll moulding, a stepped buttress flush with the east end, and an east window of three lights with returned labels to the arched lights, terminating in foliate stops. The north side of the nave has three plate windows and one lancet, with a further lancet in the chancel. A gabled vestry features a plain pointed-arched window to the north gable. An extruded porch sits between the chancel and nave, featuring a plain arched entrance and recessed boarded door.

The western tower is of early 19th century rubble construction with dressed stone and a dressed stone spire in a rustic Romanesque style. It has a round-arched entrance with a label and a modern boarded door and tympanum. Above is a two-light window with later brick infill, and further arched windows to the upper floor, which have been reduced in size. Stepped and parapeted access leads to a boarded entrance on the north side. The tower has plain string courses and shaved sides, and an octagonal spire with string courses, small arched and canopied bell vents, and a decorative iron weather-vane.

The aisless nave consists of four bays and has a collar-truss roof carried on plain corbels. The nave windows contain good late 19th century figurative stained glass, and there are plain Victorian pine pews. A Gothic style alabaster pulpit, dedicated to the memory of John Vaughan of Nannau, who died in 1900, features decorated tracery panels and relief carvings of Christ and the apostles. Several marble wall monuments, repositioned from both the medieval and early 19th century church, are present. The most significant of these is a large white marble monument to Anne Nanney of Nannau, who died in 1729, which dominates the west wall and includes a draped curtain with putti bearing a life-sized bust of the deceased within a roundel. Other wall monuments commemorate Rice Jones (1801), and Jonnet and Griffith Price (1788 and 1804). The font is plain, with an octagonal base and a cylindrical top decorated with blind trefoils and oculi. The chancel has a polychromed tiled floor.

A large chancel arch features a corbelled inner arch, and the ceiling is a compartmented waggon roof. Plain choir stalls have Gothic tracery panelled fronts. Good figurative east window glass commemorates James Vaughan of Nannau (1861) and similar glass is found in the north and south chancel windows. A 19th century organ with polychromed pipes completes the interior.