St Maelog

The building is a former church, now a house, constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof and a red terracotta ridge. The original structure includes a nave and a chancel, with a 19th-century timber bell turret at the west end, a gabled south porch, and a 20th-century gabled projection on the north side. The west end features substantial red sandstone corner stones, and a large, 2002 square-headed window with two rows of three leaded lights, the upper lights being arched. The eaves are bargeboarded. The bell turret has sloping metal sides to its base, timber louvres at the bell stage, and a slate pyramid roof. The south roof has three 2002 roof lights. The gabled south porch has bargeboards and terracotta ridge tiles. It contains a moulded, pointed, late medieval south doorway with small medieval lancets to the west and east sides. The arch is detailed with a continuous double roll moulding and bar stop, and is surmounted by a 1710 plaque. A cambered 18th-century door, with stone voussoirs and a studded plank door, is set within the porch. To the right of the doorway is a 2002 two-light wooden window with arched heads, resembling a window shown in old photographs. This window is flanked by two wall plaques commemorating Jennet Vaughan, who died in 1848, and Thomas Powell of Llandefaelog Tre'r Graig, who died in 1855, both plaques being attributed to Phillips of Talgarth. A late medieval two-light window is located on the chancel south side, with a square head, recessed cusped ogee lights, and sunk spandrels.

The north side has a small, narrow light in the centre of the nave, a 2002 inserted two-light window to the right (similar to the one on the south side), a 2002 gabled addition with a plain door on the west side, and a small medieval lancet in the chancel north wall. The east end was rebuilt in the 19th century with a stepped triplet of cusped lancets in grey stone.

The nave has been altered. The chancel is now a kitchen, and three monuments survive within it. A fine 1774 memorial to Rev Gregory Parry is on the north wall, featuring a veined yellow marble top with a white marble cartouche, set above a moulded shelf with a white marble urn (likely originally part of a pair). A grey marble inverted trapezoid base supports a white marble plaque of similar shape on fluted consoles. The inscription is dedicated to the Rev. Gregory Parry, who rebuilt the church in 1710 at his own expense, having found it in ruins, along with his wife Elizabeth, sister Mary Harcourt, and son James Parry, barrister, who died in 1772. The memorial was erected by the Rev. Gregory Parry. On the east wall is a memorial to Thomas Morris of Cwrgare, who died in 1844, featuring a draped urn on a pedestal with an inscription in Welsh. A partially obscured memorial to Rev Gregory Parry, who died in 1785, is on the south wall; it’s a fine marble memorial similar to the north memorial, with a curved-sided, yellow-veined marble top carved with a mourning female figure and an urn, framed by laurel branches. A plaque below, partially concealed by a kitchen unit, exhibits delicate Adam-style ornament. The east window has a segmental, pointed reveal. The roof is supported by pine scissor rafters installed in 1901.