Church of Christ Church Aberbeeg

Church consisting of large SE tower, single bay nave with N and S aisles and N and S transepts, chancel and NE vestry wing. Of snecked rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and cruciform finials. Dominating the S frontage is the tall tapering tower, embattled with projecting corner stair turrent, gargoyles and weathercock, large pointed arched louvred openings with cusped heads and tracery to the high ringing chamber, dividing string courses, and narrow lancets to the stairs and tower chamber; moulded plinth. Main doorway to the church is most unusually through the tower, a moulded pointed arched doorway at SE; had the building been completed a formal nave entrance would have been provided.. S transept adjacent has large 3-light window with Perpendicular-style tracery and hoodmould, similar to N. Similar 4- light window to chancel with face stops, also side lancets and diagonal buttresses with offsets. Aisle windows have grouped cusped lights in a square surround as do the clerestory windows; similar also to N vestry which has separate entrance and steps to basement. 3-light W window has similar Perpendicular-style tracery with a brick surround and the unfinished N and S wall ends of the nave.

The only two bays of the unfinished nave have half-round red sandstone piers with pale stone flat sides and moulded capitals. Boarded roof in shallow bays to nave and chancel, the latter with a dentil moulding at wallplate. Chancel arch is tall and pointed with stiff-leaf capitals; in the angle between nave and chancel are two large face corbels; below is a low kerb-type screen with canopywork. Stone pulpit with canopywork panels and stiff-leaf bands. N transept is open; to S the aisle is boarded off to form a chapel. Chancel is not rendered and is dominated by a wide stone reredos stretching across the E end with a relief sculpture of the Last Supper and surmounted by 4 figures of angels; organ to N. Metal corona light fittings.