Church of St Cynog

The Church of St Cynog is a Decorated Gothic style building dating from the late 13th century. It is constructed of grey snecked and squared sandstone rubble with limestone dressings and has a tiled roof with a crested ridge between coped gables. The church consists of a nave with a north aisle, a south porch, a large square tower on the north side, and a chancel with a north vestry. The south porch has a sharply pointed outer arch set in a steep coped gable, with the roof extending approximately 1 meter above ground level. Nook shafts support naturalistic vineleaf capitals. The nave has two-light cusped windows with quatrefoil heads, and a cusped lancet window at the east end. The chancel has a south priest's door with foils in the arch, along with two-light and lancet windows similar to those in the nave. The east window is a three-light design with a cusped quatrefoil in a wheel head, and there is a two-light window to the lean-to aisle, alongside trefoiled windows to the vestry. The tower has a western buttress, and an external door to a stair tower to the east, with a part-octagonal stair terminating in a low conical stone cap.

Within the churchyard, approximately 27 meters south of the south door, stands a sundial featuring an octagonal shaft on a square base, with a moulded capital of late 13th-century style, possibly original. It is raised on three steps, though the dial plate is now missing.

The main entrance door to the nave is boarded and secured with decorative iron hinges, set within a wave-moulded surround. Inside, the nave has three bays and a lofty roof structure featuring arch-braced collar trusses and long curved windbraces to the single tier of purlins. The rafters are open, with a boarded soffit. The trusses spring from wall corbels, which are shaped as shafts and have foliated capitals. A two-bay arcade runs along the north side, featuring depressed chamfered arches supported by octagonal columns. The capitals are deeply carved with naturalistic elements and extend as a wall string to angels flanking the arched opening into the base of the tower. A narrow lean-to aisle roof is also present. The chancel is narrower and raised one step, with colourwashed walls and a similar roof supported on angel corbels. Two steps lead into the sanctuary, and the east window is complemented by colonnettes at the angles of the reveals.

The church contains 19th-century pews and a part-octagonal stone pulpit, with the book rest supported by a corbel carved as a praying angel. The font has an octagonal bowl with columns having pendants at the angles and gabled relief tracery to each face. A single bell is housed in the tower and is believed to be pre-reformation, bearing the inscription "ORA PRO NOBIS SANCTA THOMA."

Monuments located on the south wall of the nave include a limestone tablet dedicated to Henry and Thomasina de Winton, who died in 1920, along with two brasses commemorating de Winton incumbents, and a Great War brass.