Church of Our Lady of Penrhys

Arts and Crafts Gothic. Mostly roughcast finish with rubble stone plinth and pilasters and Welsh slate roof. Single storey to roadside left and because of slope two storeyed to right with meeting rooms on ground floor below church. Nave has 4 bays with single narrower bay to chancel; S aisle to nave and chancel consists of 4 bays with 3 separate cross gabled roofs and the SE chapel bay forming a cross wing; at W a porch and baptistry at NW end of nave. Windows with mostly replaced glazing are single wide pointed arched lights with sillband beneath and separated by pilasters in nave; lancets to chancel and at W. W gable end elevation has 3 small lancets at apex surmounted by a turret incorporating a cross with metal cross finial above and with saddleback roofed chimney to left; pitched roof to porch extends left into a polygonal roof over baptistry with lancet windows; pointed arched west entrance doorway. S two storey elevation has segmental arched windows with replaced glazing and similar doorways on ground floor. E end, pebbledashed, retains original glazing of coloured glass quarries in triple lancets. Iron railings with gates extend round W, S and SE.

Stained timber roof consists of alternating scissor brace and tie beam trusses to nave and cross gables to south aisle. Pointed arched openings to door, windows and arcade are all without mouldings or capitals. East end partly refurbished in 1970s retains decorative wood and iron communion rail. Nave furnished with pine benches; quarry tiled central nave aisle and parquet elsewhere.