Church of St Ffraid

The Church of St Ffraid is a medieval church. It comprises a west tower, a nave, a south porch, a chancel, and a northeast vestry, with the building stepped to accommodate the slope of the ground. The majority of the church is constructed from random rubble with roughly dressed quoins, and ashlar dressings. The roof is slate, featuring small cruciform finials and gables with coping. The tall west tower has a small saddleback roof with kneelers and trefoil-headed louvred lights to the belfry and above, with slit lights below. It features a pointed arched, chamfered doorway and a small niche containing a cross above the doorway. There are no buttresses. The south porch has an unusual Romanesque doorway of three orders, adorned with zigzag and shuttlecock mouldings and slender detached shafts with trumpet capitals; the inner arch has attached shafts and scallop capitals. A Romanesque round-arched doorway, tall and decorated with a fishscale motif, is located on the south side of the church. A 19th-century porch roof with wind-braces covers this doorway, and it is accessed via a double-boarded door with large decorative hinges. The nave windows, on both sides, are chunky paired lights with cusped or cinquefoil heads within rectangular frames, with glazed spandrels and square hoods under relieving arches, all dating to the 19th century. The chancel has a Tudor-arched south priests' doorway, a cinquefoil sanctuary window, and a three-light east window with Perpendicular-style tracery, with the central light partly blocked by an added niche. The vestry is constructed of coursed rock-faced stone.

Inside, the church is rendered. A 19th-century arch-braced timber nave roof spans six bays, with principal rafters supported on corbels and a moulded wallplate. The tower has a coffered ceiling also supported on corbels. A wide Norman arch, with a diapered impost and slender attached shafts with scallop capitals, connects the tower to the nave. There is no change in level between the nave and the chancel. The chancel is shallow and has a floor of encaustic tiles; the sanctuary features a polychrome altar. A late medieval stone tabernacle is situated in front of the east window, containing a gilded Virgin and Child, installed in 1957 in memory of John Cory (died 17.5.1939). Stained glass roundels, dating from the 16th century and likely Swiss or German in origin, together with a fragment of an angel, are set within the east window, also installed in 1957. A 17th-century wall monument is also present. A stone pulpit with blind Perpendicular-style panelling stands in the church. The font is plain and octagonal, likely dating from the 15th century.