Church of St Brynach

The Church of St Brynach is a parish church, dating from the 18th century, constructed of coursed squared slatey stone with cut slate dressings and slate roofs. The church comprises a west tower, a nave, and a chancel.

The west tower is broad and squat, consisting of three stages. The exterior of the tower is largely unrelated to the interior, which is mostly hollow. Clasping buttresses are present on the northwest and southwest sides, featuring four cut-slate set-offs rising to a string-course at the base of a plain parapet. The parapet is punctuated by square corner piers capped by octagonal finials with steep pointed caps. Notional bell openings are set into the west, north, and south faces, each housing a blind three-light design with a chamfered surround, cut slate voussoirs, slate Tudor tracery, and a heavy string course below. The west face features a long, blind three-light window with a chamfered surround, voussoirs, and a hoodmould; the outer lights are pierced with cross loops. The north and south faces have two short, blind lights pierced by loops, with a single long light on the ground floor, featuring a hoodmould and a Tudor timber window with lattice leaded glazing. A segmental-pointed chamfered doorway with cut slate voussoirs and a hoodmould is centered on the west front, incorporating double doors with a fixed head.

The nave has four buttresses on each side, each with two set-offs, with the outer ones extending above the gable shoulders as square piers topped with pediment caps. A high plinth runs between the buttresses. The south side of the nave has two rectangular, chamfered windows with hoodmoulds, slate sills, and two-light timber Tudor glazing, as well as one chamfered, segmental-pointed window with timber Y-tracery. The north side mirrors this arrangement with three similar rectangular windows with hoodmoulds. Slate coping defines the east and west ends of the nave; the east end features an extraordinary slate obelisk terminated as a cross.

The chancel has a lower roof, similar buttresses with pediment finials, coped gable, and a slate finial shaped like a layered obelisk or square Christmas tree. A high plinth is also present. It contains one blind, rectangular window on each side with slate voussoirs, a hoodmould, and a sill, and a segmental-pointed east window with a three-light intersecting tracery design in timber. A vent loop is located in the gable.

The interior is plain, including a later 19th-century three-sided boarded nave ceiling and a panelled, boarded chancel ceiling. A plain, pointed chancel arch leads to the chancel, which is floored with later 19th-century tiles. Fittings include a late medieval octagonal font with a coved underside to an octagonal stem, bearing the initials "TD" on one side. Later 19th-century box pews are present, as is an 1842 plain, painted, and grained pulpit and reading desk with cusped blind tracery. Iron altar rails are also found within the church. Stained glass from the late 19th or early 20th century exists in the east window, depicting a Good Shepherd on patterned quarries flanked by angels in quatrefoil designs. A wooden stair ascends within the tower, to the right, and a wooden screen abuts to the right, separating the tower from a vestry. The upper part of the tower is hollow with a valley roof at the first-floor level. It is said to contain two bells dated 1825.