Church of St John the Baptist

Parish church, roughcast stone with slate close-eaved single roof and rendered W bellcote. W end has no windows. Bellcote has slate drips each side, then slate sill, single arched opening with side piers with two slate courses near tops and inset shallow-curved top (similar to bellcote at Ystrad Fflur). S side has added gabled porch to left and two windows, N side has 2 windows, all windows pointed with stone Y-tracery and leaded glazing (the glazing late C19). S side has recessed rendered-over stone voussoirs. Added porch is gabled with cement coping, rendered pointed arch, C20 board doors and Y-tracery overlight. Porch has thin boarding within and plain square-headed S door within: painted-grained flush-panelled double doors. E end has large pointed 3-light similar to other windows with intersecting tracery. Attached to S side is long iron-railed early C19 burial enclosure with spearhead rails and urn finials to stanchions (enclosing tombs to Hughes family of Ty Llwyn and Jones of Hafodau).

Plastered interior with plain roof of six tie-beam and king-post trusses with three rows of purlins each side. One step to sanctuary. Fittings: Two fonts, one later C19 Bath stone octagonal the other an extraordinary C19 wooden font, possibly an exhibition piece of c.1850-60. Octagonal wooden bowl with boxwood pointed panels in surrounds with crockets and column shafts. Octagonal base with 8 scroll feet with lion heads. Inside is a papier-mâché shallow dish. Font cover is flat with delicate relief stippling and centre handle of a figure carrying cross entwined with snake and acanthus finial. Painted boards with Ten Commandments on left, Creed and Lord's Prayer on right, dated 1836. Later C19 pews. War Memorial fittings in oak of c.1950 including big hexagonal pulpit with carved panels and scrolled cornice, altar rails, three chairs and lectern. Stained glass: E window by Celtic Studios 1952 to Rev Slingsby Jenkins died 1948, three lights, Christ with SS David and John the Baptist.