Parish Church of St Mary

The Parish Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building with origins dating back to the 13th century. The nave and chancel were both widened and heightened in the 14th century. The church features a 14th-century north aisle, a south porch from the 14th or 15th century, and a 13th-century tower topped with an 18th-century broach spire. There is also a vestry lean-to in the northwest corner. The exterior is constructed of coursed random rubble, showcasing various building phases, with a stone tiled roof, slate at the base of the spire, and shingles on the upper part. A 1709 weathervane adorns the spire. The nave and chancel are supported by corner buttresses, and the east end of the nave has coping stones along with a rare early sanctus bellcote.

The south priests' door features a pointed arch from the 13th century, while the south wall of the nave has single and paired lancet windows, with one modern window to the west of the porch. The chancel boasts large 16th-century Perpendicular windows made of red sandstone, and the east window is decorated in the Decorated style with renewed tracery. Above the chancel, there are two unusual re-set 14th or 15th-century trefoil-head lights, and the middle stages of the tower have a string course and ventilation slits. The belfry stage includes large squared openings with louvres.

The porch has chamfered pointed arches and features a heavy tie-beam and collar roof with apex braces, cusped windbraces, stone wall benches, and a flag-stone floor. The churchyard contains numerous chest tombs and a First World War memorial cross set on a medieval stepped base with a small Easter recess.

Inside, the south door is boarded and has very elaborate strap hinges. The nave roof, dating from the 15th century, is of a type rare in Radnorshire, featuring arch-braced close-set rafters over a crown post and an arch-braced tie-beam. The feet of the hammer posts rest on stone corbels, with two above the aisle arcade depicting male and female heads. The chancel arch is offset with asymmetrical soffit chamfers, likely having a 13th-century base and a 14th-century enlarged head. The chancel roof features 16th-century arch-braced rafters with plain boss decoration, chamfered purlins, and quatrefoil windbraces, with an earlier roof line visible.

The stoup is formed from a re-used foliated Early English capital, and there is a piscina with a pointed arch. The north arcade from the 14th century consists of three bays with responds, octagonal piers, moulded capitals, and double chamfered soffits. A piscina is provided for the aisle altar. The font is a plain circular design from the 13th century, while the stone pulpit dates to 1749 and the parish chest is from 1692. Most furnishings are from 1910 in a Gothic style, including an angel lectern from 1922. The church has five bells cast in 1719 by Rudhall of Gloucester, although the frame is in poor condition, and a sanctus bell from 1921.