Church of Saint Meilyr

The Church of Saint Meilyr is a parish church, constructed of rubble stone with slate roofs, some of which have coped gables. The west end features a restored sandstone doorway with a segmental-pointed arch and a 19th-century board door with ornate iron hinges. A broad bellcote, built of rough stone, has two triangular-headed openings with rough stone heads and a 19th-century fleur-de-lys finial to its gabled top. On the north side are three 19th-century sandstone windows, each with two lights and cusped heads to the lights. The south side features a low, slate-roofed projection to the left with a 19th-century ashlar trefoil light, and two similar two-light windows to the right. A slate plaque, set into the wall between the windows, commemorates Lettitia Philipp of Southfield, who died in 1795, and has a crude open pediment. The chancel has a lower roof with a cross finial to the gable, and the roof extends southwards over a windowless rubble projection. Attached to the chancel on the right is a slate, pedimented and columned memorial to John Bowen of Farthings Hook, who died in 1829. The east end has a triplet of 19th-century cusped lancet windows, the central one being taller. The north side is windowless.

Inside, the walls are plastered and the roofs date to the 19th century. The nave roof has six plain bolted collar trusses. A segmental-pointed arch defines the west door. A low, broad, segmental-pointed opening leads to a semicircular recess of approximately 1.5 metres in depth and 1.8 metres in width on the south side of the nave; this space is plastered internally but was possibly vaulted and medieval, with an unknown purpose. The chancel arch is irregularly round and plastered. The chancel roof has two bays with arch-braced collar trusses. A rectangular recess is on the south wall to the left, and a full-height opening leads to a lean-to vestry on the right.

The furnishings are largely from the later 19th century, with the exception of the font. The font is possibly from the 13th century and has a crude polygonal bowl with nine or ten irregular sides, slightly sloping to a chamfered underside. It is set upon a medieval whitewashed round pier with a crude water-holding ring moulding below, clasped by four spur feet, and sits on a square plinth. There are pine pews, an octagonal pine pulpit with Gothic cusped panels, turned columns at the angles, and a pine book-rest lectern. Pine rails have cusped pointed openings, column shafts, and pierced trefoils in the spandrels. A pine screen separates the vestry recess on the south side of the chancel; it has a segmental-pointed entry to the left of a raised four-light opening with turned column shafts and cusped pointed heads.