Church of St Mabon

Small church in Romanesque style. Built of partly snecked narrow-coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, some tooled, and Welsh slate roof with ashlar copings. Plan of single celled nave, relatively large S porch, small N vestry and small chancel. W front is surmounted by a bellcote with single bell within a Romanesque-style arch under a gable with cruciform finial. Tall round-arched W entrance doorway has 2 orders of Romanesque-style motifs, zigzag and pellet, bordered by voussoirs, wide imposts, piers with cushion capitals, plain surround to doorway; above is a small round-arched window with similar mouldings. Wide and flat corner buttresses with coping; tooled quoins, battered plinth. S side of nave has a 4-window range of small round-headed windows with simple Romanesque-style mouldings to the heads. Tall and wide gabled S porch with moulded kneelers; high round-arched doorway with billet mouldings and attached half-round shafts; tall iron double gates of railings with spear finials reach capital level with tympanum section above. Inside are a flag floor, stone benches and steps up to a shouldered doorway; wide splays and surrounds to small side lights. Two similar smaller windows to S chancel and a blocked shouldered doorway; deep plinth. E window of 3 longer lights with plain continuous hoodmould and roundel above; similar corner buttresses. Low vestry at NE with roof sweeping right down and 3 similar windows to N nave. Large old metal lantern set on SW corner. Set in a walled rectangular churchyard which contains many well-lettered C19 headstones in Welsh and English and some monuments retaining very decorative iron railings.

Interior is rendered with exposed dressings and is dominated by the wide Romanesque-style arch with attached shafts and moulded capitals with foliage interlace motif. Roofs are open with arch-braced trusses supported by corbels, 6 bays to nave and 3 to chancel. Windows have deep splays. Flag floor to nave central aisle. Mid C19 Thomas monument by E Davies of Caerphilly. Large font enriched with carvings of leaves, birds and stars, probably by Prichard. Stained glass by R J Newberry including 3-lights of E window.