Church of St Michael and All Angels

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a medieval parish church, largely rebuilt or altered in the 19th century. The west end is built on large boulder foundations, and the chancel was rebuilt approximately 1.5 metres above the original ground level, likely during the medieval period. The church has a single-celled plan with a south porch, a north vestry and store, and a prominent weatherboarded belltower at the west end, topped with a sprocketed pyramidal roof and wind vane. The exterior uses uncoursed small rubble and tabular shale, with a slate roof. A plain, chamfered south door sits within the porch. The church features 19th-century trefoil-headed windows with two and three lights, constructed of Grinshill stone, while the east window is a mid-15th century three-light window. Reset medieval single-light windows are found in the vestry. Buttresses of Breidden dolerite and red sandstone ashlar dressings were added to the east gable end in the 19th century. A mid-19th century pencil drawing shows a large five-light dormer on the south side, which is no longer present.

Inside, the nave and chancel are combined in one cell, with the chancel raised two steps. The church boasts a fine 15th-century roof, constructed with arch-braced collar beam trusses, dropped centres, and raking struts to the principals, which support two tiers of purlins each with cusped windbraces. The principal rafters are set on bracketed stub ties, with the ceiling boarded over the rafters. The walls are unplastered, with a late 19th-century oak carved cornice and splayed timber lintels over the wide window reveals. A medieval stoup stands beside the south door. The west wall has been altered or rebuilt. A three-bay arcade with pierced spandrels, likely dating from the mid-19th century, crosses the west end and supports the belfry floor. The belltower contains a single early 14th-century bell, believed to be the oldest of seven surviving medieval bells in the county, set within an early timber frame.

The church contains 17th- and 18th-century fielded panelling, possibly from former box pews, which have been reused as dado panelling in the chancel and across the west end. A richly carved reredos incorporates a carved board from an earlier reredos, inscribed RP, VP 1608, commemorating the Pryce family of Glyncogen. The font is a simple 19th-century tub of Bath stone, decorated with a chevron frieze. The pulpit is also 19th century, featuring traceried sides and figures, while the reading desk fronts include 17th-century carved panels. Good-quality oak pews, crafted by Douglas, feature carved bands. The east window contains a crucifixion by O’Connor, dated 1859, and the south chancel window depicts "Our Lord and the Marys," from 1898. 15th-century yellow-stain glass angels are incorporated into the heads of the north and south lancets in the vestry. Monuments include a slate tablet on the east wall commemorating Rev Canon Edward Davies, rector, who died in 1793, set within a painted frame, and tablets on the south wall honouring Robert Llewelyn Evans, who died in 1916, and his brothers Joseph and William. A marble tablet in an alabaster frame on the west wall commemorates the 1898 restoration.