Church of St Hychan

The Church of St Hychan is a medieval building, largely of the 15th century, built of axe-dressed limestone with red or yellow freestone dressings. The roof is slate, with a coped gable to the west, surmounted by an ashlar bellcote containing a bell and wheel, coped and topped with a small cross finial. An octagonal roof vent is located at the centre. A vestry in similar materials, with a pyramid roof, adjoins the north-west side. A timber-framed porch with decorative bargeboards sits at the south.

The east window is of the size and shape indicated in a pre-restoration drawing from 1872, and is believed to have tracery of early 20th century Decorated style. The east window on the south side is constructed from red sandstone, and all three windows on the north side feature pointed, trefoil-headed lights. A three-light window bears the inscription RT / 1626 and has three trefoil-headed lights. The south door is set within a two-centred arch with a chamfer and broach stops, while the west door has a round arch made from reused jamb masonry, above which is a two-light, square-headed window.

The church is entered through the south porch, a two-bay timber-framed structure executed in an Arts and Crafts style, with a red quarry tile floor and a plain door with wrought iron hinges.

The nave is a single space, containing a fine 15th-century timber-framed roof in seven bays, with braced collar beams and two purlins on each side, incorporating cusped windbracing. V struts are above the collars, and the rafters have ashlar details. The floor is paved with red and black quarry tiles, and there are plain pews arranged in two banks.

The chancel is raised by one step and paved with black and white quarry tiles, incorporating encaustic tiles. A 19th-century octagonal pulpit stands in the chancel, and the adjacent prayer desk is carved in low relief and dated RI / 1730. The communion rails have simple turned balusters and a brass bar. Tall pews line each side of the altar, with panelled fronts incorporating balusters. Timber, possibly from a waggon ceiling over the sanctuary, has been incorporated into the reredos of 1846.

The east window is by J Dudley Forsyth, given by Crosland, and is marked AMDG on the jamb. Two other windows are dated 1899 and 1869 respectively, and a third, by Kempe, is dated 1891.

Three 18th-century armorial wall monuments commemorate members of the Jones family, including one at the centre dedicated to Dr Richard Jones, Chancellor of Bangor from 1675, a nonjuror. These monuments feature fluted pilasters and cherub heads.