St Machreth's Church

Rubble construction, snecked to nave and chancel and with sandstone dressings. Medium-pitched slate roofs with plain eaves cornice, ridge tiles and gable crosses. Plain gabled Sporch with flush flanking butresses; 4-centred-arched entrance, stopped-chamfered and with inner arch; pointed-arched inner entrance with boarded double doors. To the R of the porch, 2 arched plate tracery windows with oculi; stepped buttresses in between. To the R, a plain chamfered lancet. Further buttress at intersection of nave with chancel. Chancel stepped-down and set back slightly. 2 lancets as before though with inner roll moulding. Stepped buttress, flush with E end. 3 light E window with returned labels to arched lights; foliate stops. 3 plate windows and one lancet as before to nave N side and one further lancet to chancel. Gabled vestry with plain pointed-arched window to N gable. Extruded porch between chancel and nave with plain arched entrance and recessed boarded door. Early C19 rubble W tower with dressed stone spire; in rustic Romanesque style. Round-arched entrance with label and modern boarded door and tympanum; Similar 2-light window above with later brick infill and further arched windows to upper floor, again reduced. Stepped and parapeted access to first-floor boarded entrance on N side. The tower has plain string courses and shaved sides. Octagonal spire with string courses and small arched and canopied bell vents; decorative iron weather-vane.

Aisless 4-bay nave with collar-truss roof carried onplain corbels. Good late C19 figurative stained glass to most nave windows; plain Victorian pine pews. Gothic style pulpit in alabaster, in memory of John Vaughan of Nannau, d. 1900; Decoratedtracery panels and relief carving of Christ and the apostles. Several marble wall monuments, all repositioned from both the Medieval and the early C19 church. Chief of these is a large white marble monument to Anne Nanney of Nannau, d. 1729, which occupies much of the W wall. Draped curtain with putti bearing a life-sized bust of the deceased in a roundel. Classical wall monuments to Rice Jones, 1801, and Jonnet and Griffith Price, 1788 and 1804. Plain font with octagonal base and cylindrical top; blind trefoils and oculi. Polychromed tiled floor to chancel.

Large chancel arch with corbelled inner arch; compartmented waggon roof. Plain choir stalls with Gothic tracery panelled fronts. Good figurative E window glass in memory of James Vaughan of Nannau (1861 and presumably therefore from the earlier church) and further, similar glass in the N and S chancel windows. C19 organ with polychromed pipes.