Church of St John the Baptist

The Church of St John the Baptist is a parish church, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of roughcast stone with a slate roof and a rendered west bellcote. The west end has no windows. The bellcote has slate drips, a slate sill, and a single arched opening with side piers featuring two courses of slate and a shallow-curved top, similar to a bellcote at Ystrad Fflur. A gabled porch has been added to the south side, with rendered pointed archways, 20th-century boarded doors, and Y-tracery overlighting. The porch has thin boarding within, and the south door is a painted-grained flush-panelled double door. The north side has two windows. All windows have pointed stone Y-tracery and leaded glazing, likely dating from the late 19th century. The south side of the church has recessed rendered-over stone voussoirs. The east end features a large, pointed three-light window with intersecting tracery, similar in style to the other windows.

Attached to the south side is a long, early 19th-century burial enclosure with iron railings, spearhead rails, and urn finials on the stanchions. This enclosure contains tombs belonging to the Hughes family of Ty Llwyn and the Jones family of Hafodau.

The interior is plastered with a plain roof consisting of six tie-beam and king-post trusses, each with three rows of purlins on either side. There is one step up to the sanctuary. There are two fonts: one is a later 19th-century octagonal font made of Bath stone, and the other is an extraordinary 19th-century wooden font, possibly an exhibition piece from around 1850-60, featuring an octagonal wooden bowl with boxwood pointed panels, crockets, column shafts, and an octagonal base with eight scroll feet and lion heads. Inside the wooden font is a papier-mâché shallow dish. The font cover is flat, with delicate stippling relief and a central handle depicting a figure carrying a cross, topped with an acanthus finial. Painted boards display the Ten Commandments on the left, the Creed and Lord's Prayer on the right, and are dated 1836. Later 19th-century pews are also present. A war memorial, dating from around 1950, includes an oak hexagonal pulpit with carved panels and a scrolled cornice, altar rails, three chairs, and a lectern. Stained glass in the east window, created by Celtic Studios in 1952, commemorates the Rev. Slingsby Jenkins, who died in 1948; it depicts Christ with SS David and John the Baptist in three lights.