Church of St David or St Llyr

Church, whitewashed rubble stone with slate roofs. Low nave and chancel with small late C19 timber W bellcote and stone S porch. Nave has close-eaved roof, windowless W wall, open timber bellcote with slate pyramid roof, S porch and two crude pointed windows with brick voussoirs and Y-tracery, the first in stone, the second in wood. N side has 2 similar windows with brick heads and timber tracery. Porch has pointed entry with stone voussoirs. Stone seats, reused moulded rafters in roof and arched doorway within with framed plank door. Chancel S has one small pointed window, N side is windowless and E end has small Y-traceried 2-light window.

Plastered interior with flat plaster ceilings curved down each side to side walls, chancel ceiling is lower. Red and yellow tiles to floor. Nave W end has horizontally-boarded vestry. Much retooled but probably medieval small octagonal font , the underside chamfered to octagonal pier broached to square at foot. C19 pews with fleur-de-lys finials to bench ends and similar chancel stalls. C19 pine pulpit with blind traceried panels on stone base. Late C18 turned altar rails with 4 fluted posts. E window has patterned glass of 1892. Nave S first window has glass of Presentation in Temple, after 1920, and second has colourful stained glass of c1900 with 2 angels and portrait in small upper light. N wall has attractive Georgian memorials of the regional type with painted simple classical detail: Watkin Bevan (d 1808) by Price of Builth; David Meredith (d 1852), signed TPB, and Rev John Bevan (d 1847) and William Bevan (d 1868) (matching earlier Bevan memorial), signed TPB. On S wall Mary Richards (d 1830), signed Davies of Builth.