St. Myllin's Church

St. Myllin's Church is a 18th-century brick church with freestone dressings and a slate roof, situated in Llanfyllin. The church consists of an aisleless nave with a sanctuary to the east, a west gallery, a north organ chamber, and a vestry. The main body of the church has a hipped slate roof with a small gable dormer to the south. The nave elevations are crenellated with pinnacles at the corners, and a shallow plinth with freestone coping. The south nave elevation features five windows in a Romanesque style, with round arches, chevron decoration, impost blocks, and shafts to the jambs. A doorway with a pediment and moulded jambs is located to the left, featuring double-leaf panelled doors with cusped heads. A plaque above the doorway commemorates church wardens Stephen Evans and Oliver Buckley from 1729. A similar doorway, originally present between the fourth and fifth windows, has been relocated and blocked. The east elevation of the nave has two round-headed windows with simple stone surrounds. A vestry block, dated 1826, extends north of the church, built on a rubble plinth due to the sloping ground. This section features a slate roof, red brick walls with dentil eaves courses in a yellower brick, and two round-headed windows with intersecting tracery to each wall. A later gabled block in red brick is situated to the west. The nave windows are round-headed, similar to those on the east elevation, and one window on the north side of the vestry has been relocated eastwards with a modern entrance inserted below. The crenellated tower has corner buttresses and pinnacles, with round-headed louvred windows to the bell storey. The south face includes a clock and round-headed windows with small metal pane glazing on the first and ground floors; the west face has a camber-headed door, and the north face a round-headed ground floor window. The inner porch doors are in a simple 18th-century style. Inside, the aisleless nave has a stone flagged floor and a coved ceiling, with a wood-panelled dado. A gallery with early 18th-century benefactors' boards is located to the west, with stairs added in the mid-19th century. To the east, the sanctuary has been given a "Normanized" appearance with a 19th-century triumphal-arch style screen, featuring a large central Romanesque arch flanked by lower arches, with dogtooth, cable enrichment, and floral capitals (intended to reference St. Myllin’s origin in Ferns, Ireland). The sanctuary also includes a panelled dado salvaged from the early 18th-century Old Rectory (demolished in 1957), Normanized windows with mid-19th-century stained glass, and 19th-century polychrome floor tiles. The organ chamber, created from the first bay of a former schoolroom, is located to the north and contains two Romanesque arches, an organ, and an entrance to the former schoolroom.