Llanfihangel Abercowyn New Church

Anglican parish church, whitewashed roughcast with slate roofs and slate-hung large timber belfry on roof-ridge of nave. Four-window nave and lower, narrower 2-window chancel, with whitewashed stone dressings (said to be red sandstone) and rubble stone plinths. Nave has 2-light long traceried windows to N and S, with varied apex designs, including quatrefoil and cinquefoil (replacing Y-tracery windows of 1847). The window jambs are carried down as a thin moulding below the sills to the plinth. W gable has 2 taller, similar lights, separated by massive stone buttress. Coped gables with cross finials. The square belfry has sloping slated sides and bisected louvered bell-openings, under steep pyramid roof. N porch of 1915 to nave W bay, with coped N gable, stone cross finial, two N buttresses, square headed 2-light windows to N and E, and cambered-headed double door to W in surround with moulded cambered arch dying into broad chamfered flanks. Doors are vertically panelled in studded frames with wrought iron hinges and latch. Chancel has simple narrow single lights of 1915 with shallow pointed heads to N and S and large 3-light pointed E window with hood mould, pointed cusped heads to lights and trefoils in spandrels. Attached 1915 S vestry is flat roofed with coped parapet and rubble plinth. Flight of stone steps at R angles to painted, boarded basement door to E side, with narrow leaded light to L. Pair of square headed 2-lights with Bath stone dressings to S. W end three stone steps to painted, boarded timber door.

1915 rendered interior. Nave has boarded roofs and tie-beam trusses probably of 1847-8, but under W end trusses are massive oak supports for 1915 belfry, of square posts with arched braces forming narrow side arches and broad cambered centre arch. Exceptional Norman tub font with interlaced arcading in incised line decoration. Chancel has 1895 E window, the Last Supper, by Clayton & Bell, given by R. Carver of Cheltenham. Gothic timber octagonal pulpit of 1915 with panelled sides, band of quatrefoil blind tracery in head of each panel and steps up with turned newel and moulded rail. Oak 7-panel altar front with blind tracery to panels, with cross to centre, matching reredos of 1930 by Mowbray and Co with similar panels each side of projecting central canopy. Crested cornice, vertical wall-panels each side of altar, and low dado panelling to side walls. Oak communion rails with traceried band under rail. Linked chairs as seats to nave, panelled timber stalls to chancel, 1915, by Caroe.