Church of Saint Cynog

The Church of Saint Cynog is a church constructed of squared grey rubble stone with grey ashlar dressings, featuring a slate roof covered in silver-grey slates and red terracotta ridge tiles, crested only over the chancel. A timber bell turret rises from the west roof ridge, being square in shape with cusped ogee paired lights on each side and a slated gabled roof. The bell turret has plain boarded gables. The windows are flat-headed, with segmental-pointed heads to the lights and incised spandrels. The north side has a two-light window to the right of the porch, a three-light window, and a two-light window to the left. The porch features grey ashlar front piers topped with sloping, brattished caps supporting timber brackets beneath a gable with large bargeboards ornamented with wave and quatrefoil motifs. Inside the porch is a pointed oak arch framed by oak sides set on low rubble walls. A pointed, chamfered medieval north door, with run-out stops to its surround, is accessed by a board door with iron hinges. The west end is rendered, with the side wall of the southwest vestry continuing the roof line to the right. The south side has a projecting vestry to the left, with a gabled two-light window featuring a quatrefoil above and bargeboards to the gable. The south wall also has a three-light and a two-light window, mirroring the north side. The east wall is punctuated by a traceried Perpendicular style three-light window with ogee cusped heads to the lights and panel tracery in the head, all under a pointed hoodmould. The east gable has bargeboards.

The interior is plastered and features a 15th-century plastered-panelled ceiling divided into ten by six panels with moulded ribs. Window openings have ashlar sides dating to 1880, paired with moulded oak lintels. A south wall ashlar ogee-headed frame surrounds the vestry door at the west end. A half-octagonal medieval stoup with a pointed recess above is located on the north wall, by the north door. There is one step leading to the chancel and another to the sanctuary and altar rails. The chancel has a tiled floor, while the sanctuary is carpeted. Fittings include an 1880 font, heavily carved with chamfered angles and panels on a square base. The chancel step supports an 1880 openwork timber three-sided pulpit to the left and matching chancel rails, the right rail incorporating a lectern with a book rest. Plain timber altar rails are supported by four posts with braces. The east wall is embellished with Gothic panelling in pine, featuring a passion-flower frieze and brattished cresting, constructed around 1900. Stalls are fitted with turned columns in the bench ends and open traceried frontals. Pine pews incorporate arm rests. Stained glass in the east window commemorates Lucy Cleasby of Penoyre, who died in 1912, potentially by Powell. Memorials on the west wall include a plaque to Howell Powell of Battle Fawr, who died in 1858, by G. Hay of Brecon, a Neo-Greek memorial to Colonel J. L. V. Watkins of Pennoyre, who died in 1865, and a marble plaque to David Kirkby of Battle House, who died in 1850, by W. Williams of Brecon. A south nave stone tablet commemorating Henry Mitchell of Battle House (died 1782), his widow (died 1788), and his son Thomas (died 1805) is by I. Millward of Hay. Additionally, a marble Gothic plaque honors Sir A. Cleasby of Pennoyre, who died in 1879, and a brass plaque remembers R. D. Cleasby of Penoyre, who died in 1909 in Abbots Langley.