Church of St Ffraed

The Church of St Ffraed is a Gothic Revival church, likely dating to the 19th century, constructed of snecked rockfaced stone with red sandstone dressings and a tiled roof. The building has bracketed eaves, decorative iron guttering, and apex crosses. The plan consists of a nave, a south porch, a slightly lower chancel, north and south choir transepts, and a slender attached spire set at the angle between the south transept and nave.

The nave has single trefoil-headed lancet windows with voussoirs on its sides, while the west front, chancel, and transepts feature Decorated windows. Stepped buttresses with offsets are present at most corners, and moulded kneelers adorn the window sills. All openings are topped with hoodmoulds, most featuring foliage stops, with face stops on the larger windows. The south porch is steeply gabled, contains a pointed arched doorway, and retains an old stoup.

The most distinctive feature is the octagonal spire, which has three tapered stages built of contrasting stone. The upper storey is of red sandstone ashlar, and the lower storeys are separated by red ashlar offsets. A pointed arched entrance at ground floor level is flanked by small trefoil-headed lights. Above are regularly spaced rectangular stair lights, and the bell chamber has eight narrow, deeply moulded, open, trefoil-headed lights, with deeply splayed sills that die into the offsets. The spire is topped with an octagonal moulding and a finial. A dedication stone is located at the southwest corner.

Inside, the walls are unrendered and built of red snecked ashlar sandstone with paler stone dressings. The nave has a six-bay arch-braced roof supported by angel corbels with shields and a wallplate screen with quatrefoil openings. The pointed moulded chancel arch has face stops to the roll-moulded hood, with the inner orders supported by short foliated responds with triple marble colonnettes. Wide pointed arches lead to the north and south choir transepts, featuring deep foliage capitals; the north transept serves as a chapel, while the south is occupied by an organ. The chancel has a boarded, coffered ceiling.

The church holds a range of monuments, including a 17th-century group in the north chapel, relating to the Jones family. Memorials are present to Thynne Gwynne of Buckland (died 1826) and Edward Jones (died 1682). At the east end, a stone reredos commemorates Alfred Crawshay (died 1891), and a stained-glass window by Willard and Hughes commemorates Gwynne Holford (died 1885). The font is medieval, featuring a fluted bowl with a stop-chamfered stem.