Church of Our Lady of Penrhys

The Church of Our Lady of Penrhys is a Grade II listed building designed in the Arts and Crafts Gothic style. It features a mostly roughcast finish with a rubble stone plinth and pilasters, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The church is single storey on the roadside side and two storeys on the right due to the slope, with meeting rooms located on the ground floor beneath the church.

The nave consists of four bays, with a single narrower bay leading to the chancel. The south aisle, which serves both the nave and chancel, has four bays covered by three separate cross-gabled roofs, with the southeast chapel bay forming a cross wing. At the west end, there is a porch and a baptistry at the northwest end of the nave. The windows, which mostly have replaced glazing, are wide pointed arched lights with a sill band beneath, separated by pilasters in the nave. The chancel features lancet windows, as does the west side.

The west gable end elevation has three small lancets at the apex, topped with a turret that incorporates a cross with a metal cross finial above, and a saddleback roofed chimney to the left. The pitched roof of the porch extends left into a polygonal roof over the baptistry, which also has lancet windows. The pointed arched west entrance doorway adds to the architectural detail. The south two-storey elevation includes segmental arched windows with replaced glazing and similar doorways on the ground floor.

The east end, which is pebbledashed, retains its original glazing of coloured glass quarries in triple lancets. Iron railings with gates extend around the west, south, and southeast sides of the church.

Inside, the stained timber roof features alternating scissor brace and tie beam trusses in the nave and cross gables in the south aisle. The pointed arched openings for doors, windows, and the arcade are all without mouldings or capitals. The east end was partly refurbished in the 1970s and retains a decorative wood and iron communion rail. The nave is furnished with pine benches, has a quarry tiled central aisle, and parquet flooring elsewhere.