St Illtyd’s Church

St Illtyd’s Church is a Grade II* listed building featuring rubble construction and stone-tiled roofs. The church has plain coped parapets, including a saddleback tower. Its layout consists of a nave, a lower chancel, and a saddleback west tower. The tower has a slight step approximately halfway up and a plain plinth. The west door is pointed and chamfered, adorned with broach stops, and features a boarded door with decorative iron foliage hinges. There are small belfry loops present.

On the south elevation of the nave, there are two Bathstone windows dating from 1888 to 1891, each with three cinquefoiled lights and straight heads. To the right of the westernmost window, there is an arc-shaped crease in the masonry, which may indicate a repair, a 19th-century flue, or the remnants of a former south aisle. The south side of the chancel has a priest’s door with a restored voussoired round-arched head and a boarded door. The upper courses of masonry jetty towards the eastern end, possibly indicating earlier medieval stonework beneath. The east window, also from 1888 to 1891, features a four-centred three-light design. The north sides of both the nave and chancel are windowless.

Inside, the nave and chancel have barrel roofs with moulded and chamfered oak ribs and plaster panels. There are inserted oak tie-beams and thick oak wallplates with arris-mouldings, while the walls are plastered. The chancel arch is crudely voussoired, chamfered, and slightly pointed. An eroded medieval font with a square bowl sits on a square-section pedestal. There is a late 19th-century Tudor-arched piscina. The pews, reset along the long sides of the nave from 1888 to 1891, feature poppy-head finials. Notable provincial neo-classical monuments include those for Anne Lewis (died 1773), Richard Jenkins (died 1776), William Miles (died 1808), and Joseph Needham (died 1819), each with distinctive inscriptions and decorative elements.