Church of St Brynach

Parish church, Preseli rubble stone with ashlar dressings and slate eaves roofs. Small nave with W bellcote, N transept, parallel N vestry, and S porch, and chancel. All detail C19 or early C20. Nave has battered base, excavated deep below ground level, W end 2-light window with trefoil in head, hoodmould and stone voussoirs. Squat gabled bellcote with single pointed opening. S porch with C20 corner piers and cemented arch. Tudor-arched inner S door with C19 board door. S small cusped lancet with stone voussoirs. Chancel has battered base, cusped S single-light with stone voussoirs, E end traceried 2-light window with 4-pointed star in head and hoodmould, and windowless N wall. Windowless lean-to against E wall of N transept contains squint passage. N transept has no batter to walls, 2-light N window with trefoil in head and stone voussoirs. Vestry in NW angle has roof parallel to nave roof, square NW angle pier and W pair of rectangular lights with small ogee point to each head.

Whitewashed plastered walls, red-tile floor, plastered pointed arch to chancel and wider similar arch to N transept. S door set in larger square-head recess. Nave roof of 4 close-spaced arch-braced collar trusses on hammer beams, with tracery in each apex. Boarded dado around walls, 1922. Medieval corbel to left of chancel arch. Transept has 2 similar roof trusses, broad cambered E arch to squint passage and cambered-headed W door to vestry. Vestry has 3-sided roof. Two steps to chancel, similar roof with 2 trusses, plain E dado panelling, N cambered arch to squint. Fittings: Square medieval font with chamfered angles, on chamfered and stopped stem and square base. Early C20 fittings include: stations of the Cross, 1902 copy by R. Cipriani of Florence of late medieval Florentine painting of Madonna della Stella, oak Gothic altar, open-fronted pulpit, and reading desk, and brass lectern the last 4 all given by Percy Arden 1907. Brass altar rail on openwork wrought iron scrolled uprights. Memorials: Chancel S square recess with iron grille, divided into 4 stone shelves for ashes in urns of Rev D.J. Evans and family. Nave N brass plaque to Percy Arden (1840-1909), chancel N plaque to Caroline Arden Camm (d 1903). Stained glass by Heaton, Butler & Bayne c1898-1909: E window 1898, Christ as Redeemer and Sower, to R.E. Arden; W window 1898 to Mary Arden, SS George and David; Nave S single light, St Paul, to Evelyn Arden (d 1894); N transept N window, Christ in the garden, to Frank Arden (d 1902); chancel S single light, St Brynach.