St. Edward's Church

St. Edward's Church is an early Decorated style aisled nave built in 1875-7 by S Pountney-Smith of Shrewsbury at a cost of 4,500 pounds. An Early English style chancel, designed by J L Pearson, was added in 1896-7. The church is believed to be the only one in Wales dedicated to St Edward.

The building is constructed of yellow and grey rubble walls with pale freestone dressings. It has tiled roofs with ridge cresting and crucifix finials to the gable parapets. Architectural features include stepped buttresses with set-offs, hood moulds (linked at the chancel), cill bands, and a stone chimney at the northeast angle of the nave clerestory.

The square-ended chancel has three stepped lancets above blank masonry, with lancets to the north and south sides. A green Price monument is located at the northeast angle, and a projecting gabled organ chamber extends from the south side, featuring geometrical tracery on the east face and a trefoiled roundel above a small boarded door accessed by steps. The nave has paired cusped lancets to each clerestory bay, except for the easternmost, which has double and single lancets. Aisles have early Decorated three-light windows with alternating tracery patterns. A drain pipe bears the date 1876 on the north side, and a geometrical window is located in the north aisle's west wall.

The south porch features a cusped lancet above the entrance and a wooden door with a frame of ornamental timberwork. The west tower is of medieval origin, with projecting sprouts over a high stringcourse. It was heightened and capped with a two-stage tiled pyramidal belfry incorporating open cusped timberwork and a weathervane. A clock face is set into the south side within a brick surround; the clock was made by John Moore and Sons in 1857. The tower houses six bells cast by Abraham Rudnall of Gloucester in 1721-2.

The interior features an open-arched truss roof in the chancel, supported on wall shafts that stop above dado paintings. The east end lancets are set under a single rere arch, and there is a triple-shafted chancel arch. Cylindrical piers support the nave, with chamfered arcades and an open timber roof with hammerbeam treatment, supported by alternate wall shafts rising from arcade spandrels. Stained glass is signed by T F Curtis and Ward and Hughes, including an east window dated 1897 and chancel and south aisle windows from 1901. An altar and stalls were designed by Pearson, Jones and Willis.