St Illtyd’s Church

Rubble construction, stone-tiled roofs. Plain coped parapets to roofs, including saddleback tower. Plan consists of nave, lower chancel, and saddleback W tower. Tower has slight step approximately halfway up, and plain plinth. Pointed and chamfered W door with broach stops. Boarded door with decorative iron foliage hinges. Small belfry loops. S elevation of nave has two Bathstone windows of 1888-91; both of three cinquefoiled lights with straight heads. Immediately to the right of the westernmost window is arc-shaped crease in the masonry - possibly a repair, a C19 flue, or indicating a former S aisle. S side of chancel has priest’s door with restored voussoired round-arched head; boarded door. Upper courses of masonry jetty towards E end, possibly indicating earlier medieval stonework below. Four-centred three-light E window of 1888-91. N sides of nave and chancel are windowless.

Barrel roofs to nave and chancel; moulded and chamfered oak ribs, with plaster panels. Inserted oak tie-beams. Thick oak wallplates with arris-mouldings. Plastered walls. Crude voussoired chancel arch, chamfered and slightly pointed. Eroded medieval font; square bowl on square-section pedestal. Late C19 Tudor-arched piscina. 1888-91 pews reset along long sides of nave; poppy-head finials. Several good provincial neo-classical monuments including: Anne Lewis +1773, pedimented; Richard Jenkins +1776, stone tablet with careful lettering and marginal pattern; William Miles +1808, tall stone tablet with shield-shaped inscription surrounded by leafy scrolls and urn in relief; Joseph Needham +1819 (agent to Beaufort Ironworks), large oval plaque with urn.