Church of St Cynon

The Church of St Cynon is a largely 1929 structure, although incorporating elements of earlier date. It is built of rubble stone with a slate roof, and features a stone bellcote to the west. The church comprises a nave, chancel, north organ chamber, and south vestry. The chancel, organ chamber, vestry, and window tracery all date from 1929.

The exterior is simple in design and of low height. The north wall is windowless, apart from a circular pulpit window to the right of the projection for the organ chamber. The west bellcote has a single arched opening and arched head. A roundel window sits above the west door, and a small hoodmoulded window is to the left. The rectangular west door is set within a shallow projection with a cambered arch and slated gable, and is accessed via a panelled ledged door with iron strap hinges. The south side features two flat-headed, 2-light, late Gothic style windows, a lean-to vestry with an east-facing window, and one 2-light chancel south window. The east end has three narrow cusped lancet windows. The roofs of the chancel, organ chamber, and vestry are carried on corbels at the wall-head angles.

The interior is simply roughcast and whitewashed. The chancel arch is plain and round. The nave roof is of four collar trusses, likely originally dating from earlier than 1929, but embellished with applied planking moulded at the edges. Corbels and short vertical timbers are located under each truss. The chancel has a similar two-bay roof, ceiled at collar level and embellished with square panels in the east bay. A moulded, square-headed doorway to the vestry, dated 1930, is situated on the southeast side of the nave, and features a good panelled door. A rounded chancel arch provides access to the pulpit. Two slate slab steps lead into the chancel, one to the sanctuary and one to the altar. The floor is paved with slate. A small north organ recess has a cambered head, and three high windows are set within cambered-headed, splayed surrounds. A south piscina has a shouldered arched head.

The fittings largely date from 1929, with the exception of the font and later 19th-century pine pews. The font is a simple grey stone medieval bowl of several joined pieces, with roll-mould banding, set on a tapering rectangular shaft dating from 1929, each face subtly moulded to a shallow wave profile. There is an oak font-cover. The pulpit is a fine, three-sided oak construction of 1929 with a cross on the canted centre panel and blank tracery beneath the top rail; it has a chamfered base and stone steps. A reading desk features a traceried front. Elegant oak altar rails are flanked by two kneelers with simple detailing. The altar table is also of oak, with minimal Gothic detail to the corner brackets.