Christ Church Parish Church

Christ Church Parish Church is a small aisleless church built in the Early English style, featuring an apsidal east end. The church is constructed from random dolerite rubble with buttresses and Cefn freestone dressings, topped with a slate roof that has cresting and cross finials. At the west end, there is a gabled bellcote, and the south porch is gabled with ramped sides and circular windows. The entrance arch is chamfered with a corbelled and roll moulded inner order, leading to a pavement tiled by Maw & Co. and a boarded door.

The windows consist of twinned lancets with chamfered surrounds, while the chancel windows are notable for their octagonal central shafts with nailhead capitals. The apse features five lancets, and the west end has three separate lancets linked by a string course at sill level, with rose windows above. A gable-ended vestry to the northwest appears to be a later addition, with brick walls internally, while a similar chamber to the northeast is original and has a 2-light window.

The east window is dedicated to Martin Williams of Bryngwyn, created by Wailes in 1863 and 1873, and the west window is dedicated to Barrett Lee, made by Powell in 1877, designed by J.W. Brown.

Inside, the church has an undivided whitewashed interior with a plain waggon-type roof in the nave and a fine radial rafter timber roof in the broad apse. The chancel arch features truncated pilasters, and the chancel has a tiled pavement with glazed tiles forming a dado around the sanctuary. There is an inscription on the altar steps and cusped arch detail on the altar rails. The polygonal Cefn stone pulpit is adorned with Gothic ornament and carving, accompanied by a painted organ case and an octagonal font, which was a gift from Mary Cornwall-Legh in 1863. The church also contains a brass sanctuary lamp and two fine brass candelabra.