Church of St Llonio

The medieval work is of mixed uncoursed rubble with red sandstone dressings (said to come from the Roman fort of Caersws - Haslam); the C19 work is of greywacke rubble with limestone dressings, and slate roofs with crested clayware ridges and gable crosses. The building consists of a short undifferentiated chancel, and organ chamber and vestry at the E end of the S nave. A C19 porch leads to the medieval hollow chamfered C14 arch in the tower. C19 2-light windows with varied tracery, and 3-light square headed windows with trefoil tracery on the N side, reflecting the pre-restoration windows. The sturdy tower has a slightly projecting stair on the NW corner, with a small medieval light. The upper stage was rebuilt, replacing the low timber framed top, characteristic of eastern Powys, with a higher weatherboarded stage and pyramidal roof.

Within the tower, the inner arch of the door is C13, with a tall arris roll-moulding and ill-formed pointed arch on chamfered imposts. Wide tower arch, C14, of 3 chamfered orders. Both nave walls are plastered. Trussed rafter barrel roof over both naves. Arcade of 4 bays with alternating 4-shaft and octagonal columns carrying arches of 2 chamfered orders. At the chancel end the roof has panelled boarding. C19 chancel arch on corbels, and an arched opening on the S side houses the organ. Two medieval wall tombs survive in the N wall, and a simple trefoiled piscina E of a C19 sedilia on the S. Stone and wood reredos. In the vestry, a triptych containing 5 carved wooden panels from the former timber arcade, representing the Fall, with a naïve Adam and Eve, and the four evangelist symbols, reset together in 1865.

Fittings: All of 1865 but organ later. Boldly detailed chancel furniture with panelled fronts with arches, strapwork and gadrooning, raised 2 steps above nave, that on the N set forward more recently. Pulpit, on the N side, a lobed panelled octagon on stone base. Font, under tower, also C19, but with the defaced C15 font with quatrefoil panels set behind. Bell in tower of c.1450.

Glass: All C19. Chancel: E window, Crucifixion, by Clayton & Bell, 1857. N side - Resurrection; N Nave - Revelations; S nave, S side: St Paul explaining the gospels to Caractacus and Brav the blesséd (sic).

Monuments: Chancel, N side, Pryce Davies of Maesmawr Hall, †1852. Under tower, 5 wall tablets, reset at restoration: (a) Corniced white marble on grey, to George Meares †1849, by J.Wills, London; (b) white marble and slate, to Jessie Meares †1842, by Vaughan of Oswestry; (c) Triangular tablet on brackets against slate, to Thomas Kissey †1849, by Underwood; (d) white cross on slate, to Lousa Meares, undated; and on S wall (e) Oval white, inset in grey corniced tablet with swept head, to Edward Davies of Maesmawr †1668. Also an unfixed ledger slab to Mary Thomas and John Davies, †1727.