Parish Church of St Teilo

The Parish Church of St Teilo is a medieval church, with substantial additions and alterations spanning several centuries. It consists of a 6-bay double nave with a chancel projecting one bay to the south, a twin-gabled south transept, and a defensive west tower. A vestry is set forward of the south transept.

The west tower is 4 stages high, constructed of squared, coursed rubble with dressed quoins. A splayed base sits below a stringcourse. A pointed doorway was cut into the west side in the 19th century. A 2-light cusped Perpendicular window with a returned label is located on the north side of the second stage. Large clock faces are visible on the third stage, flanked by two-light cusped Perpendicular windows on each face at the bell stage. A stringcourse runs below crenellated battlements with gargoyle waterspouts. A stair turret rises above the tower at the northeast angle, featuring slit windows resembling vices.

The north side has 6 buttressed bays with snecked rubble masonry and ashlar dressings. A gabled porch is situated in the second bay from the west, incorporating a pointed doorway and nookshafts. Similar 4- and 5-light windows are positioned at the west and east ends respectively. The church is roofed with steeply pitched slate, with raking gable parapets on kneelers. The chancel features a small 3-light window to the north, a large 6-light east window, and angle buttresses. The outshot vestry has 2-light windows with cusped and Caernarvon arched heads. The twin-gabled south transept has angle buttresses and 3-light windows, with a smaller 2-light side window. Four nave windows mirror those on the north side, with buttresses.

Inside, an octagonal arcade rises to plain arches with hood moulds. Modern partitions subdivide the north nave, creating a corridor alongside the south nave and service rooms at the west end of the north nave. A 15th-century octagonal font bowl, originally from Llandyfeisant, is present, alongside a late 16th-century armorial tombstone. The main body of the north nave contains two 10th-century cross heads, remnants of an earlier church. Other features include a bronze relief of W Phillipps (d. 1908) by Elkingtons of London, a marble relief of a classical mourning figure with a lamp on a pedestal, dedicated to Cecily, Baroness Dynevor (d. 1793) by J Bacon of London, a similar figure relief with an urn to George Rice of Newton House (d. 1770), and a classical architrave in marble with a triglyph frieze, gadrooned base, and bracket, dedicated to Catherine Rice of Newton House (d. 1717) by John Rendall of Bristol. The chancel arch rests on moulded corbels. A stone font and pulpit date to 1850. A glazed screen sits at the base of the tower. A black marble tablet commemorates John Griffiths of Glancennen (d. 1754) in the south transept. Numerous monuments of varying styles are found in the chancel, including a mid-18th-century monument with paired tablets under a segmental pediment bearing an armorial crest, a small tablet to Rev W Owen (d. 1791), a large monument depicting a classical mourner leaning on an urn under a willow tree, dedicated to Patricia, daughter of William Hughes Esq of Tregib (d. 1822), a tablet with swagged cherubs to Thomas Lewis Esq (d. 1829) by John Mainwaring of Carmarthen, and an urn and pediment with tapered fluted pilasters to Ven Thomas Beynon (d. 1833) by Daniel Mainwaring of Carmarthen.