Church of St Llawddog

The Church of St Llawddog is an Anglican parish church built between 1868 and 1872 by the architects Middleton and Goodman from Cheltenham. It is constructed of grey squared stone with Bath stone dressings and features steep slate roofs. This church is designed in the High Victorian Gothic style, incorporating plate-traceried and early French Gothic details.

The structure includes a nave with a west bellcote, a south porch, a north vestry, and a five-sided apsed chancel. The nave has plain Bath stone lancets and steeply sloping buttresses, with an ashlar plinth and clasping buttresses at the west end. The west façade features two similar lancets and a large ashlar plate-traceried rose window with seven sexfoils and an ornamented hoodmould. The bellcote has two bells with pointed arches and column shafts. The south porch boasts a large roll-moulded pointed arch with a nailhead hoodmould and heavy shafts with stiff-leaf capitals, a design echoed in the inner door. Inside the porch, there are stone seats and two side lancets. The church also contains some reset 18th-century and early 19th-century memorial slabs on the wall. The gabled north vestry has a circular external stack. The chancel features an ashlar corbel table, similar lancets, an ashlar sill-course, and more elaborate buttresses.

In the churchyard, there is a 'CURCAGNUS' stone from the 5th or 6th century, originally located at Llandeilo Llwydiarth in Pembrokeshire, inscribed with 'CURCAGNI FILI ANDAGELL'.

Inside, the nave has an open rafter roof and plastered walls. The chancel arch is elaborate, supported by massive stiff-leaf corbels on column shafts, with a roll-mould and outer chamfer decorated with leaf motifs. The arch features a hoodmould resting on leaf corbels, and the chancel has encaustic tiles.

Notable fittings include a Caen stone pulpit from 1872 with marble shafts and a carved apostle statue under a canopy, an iron lectern from around 1872, and simple timber altar rails. There is a fine 12th-century small bowl font from Llandysiliogogo in Cardiganshire, adorned with serpentine decoration and crude corner faces, paired at the northeast angle with a 1872 shaft. The church also features fine stained glass from 1872 in the west rose window, depicting musician angels and a lamb, as well as in three apse windows, attributed to Hardman (M Harrison). Additionally, there is stained glass in two west lancets from 1917 by R J Newbery, and a plain sarcophagus plaque at the west end commemorating Harriette Brigstocke, who died in 1833.