Parish Church of St Berres

Simple Perpendicular Gothic style, coursed and squared rubble, slate roof, stone gable parapets and moulded kneelers. E end has `STD 1650' datestone over cusped lancet niche and a depressed arched window set in a partially blocked former window opening. N side: two 2-light windows, low vestry with similar window. S transept which has a junction with the main building on the E side made, unusually, by a laced valley. W tower steps out and is flanked by cusped lancets. 3 diminishing stages, the first square, the second octagonal and the third in the form of a stone octagonal bell-turret with cusped openings; weathervane on top.

Hearse house to S of church with slate roof, rubble walls and C20 door.

Derives its character mainly from the Douglas refit. Timber roof supported by simple braces rising from stone corbels, simple bench seating, gallery at W end. The chancel has no structural expression, there is an oak screen carved with flowing tracery, sanctuary has encaustic tile floor. Simple octagonal font at W end with quatrefoils and the date 1684. Oak pulpit with carved and gilded oak panels, typical of Douglas's work of this period. Monument on S wall of sanctuary to Edward Jones, d 1685, his wife, d 1711, in the form of a cartouche with draperies floral drops and a winged putto. C19 monuments to the Carnons of Colomendy. In the transept a number of carved stone fragments have been attached to the wall including a circa C14 effigy and a memorial to John Meredith, rector, d 1660 with an extensive genealogy. At the north end of the nave are several creed and commandment boards including one signed `E Davies Painter ' and dated 1788. Charity board dated 1820.