Church of St Martin

The Church of St Martin is an Anglican parish church, dating to the 15th century, with rubble stone construction and silvery slate roofs, red clay ridge tiles, and ashlar coped gables. It consists of a small nave, chancel, and a west tower with a stone-tiled pyramid roof. A half-timbered south porch has been added.

The west tower is plain, originally with a roofline even with the nave ridge, and now features single, tiny lancet bell openings. The south side of the nave incorporates a rebuilt porch with thin half-timbering on a rubble stone base. A gabled rectangular blank plaque above the tie-beam originally held a carved IHS shield panel. A chamfered round arch leads to the south door, which has a 19th-century plank door. A flat-headed three-light window, also from the 19th century, is located to the right. The chancel south wall contains a 19th-century pointed doorway and a 14th-century cusped lancet window to the right. The east window, from 1885, is constructed of Bath stone with a square head and ogee Perpendicular tracery, a 19th-century hoodmould, and reused medieval stops. The north wall of the chancel is apparently 19th-century rubble stone. The rebuilt north wall of the nave, except for the north-east corner, has a flat-headed three-light window matching that on the south side.

Inside, the nave features exposed rubble stone walls and an 15th-century panel barrel-vaulted ceiling with heavily moulded wall plates and a single tie-beam at the west end. The chancel displays a step-back in the stonework over the chancel arch. A small arched doorway with stone voussoirs leads from the west into the tower where an early 19th-century board door provides access. The tower base has a flat timber ceiling and matchboard wall lining. The nave north and south windows have deep, splayed 19th-century reveals; the north window contains a small stained glass panel dating from 1996. A 19th-century pointed Bath stone chancel arch displays mouldings that die into the piers. The chancel roof, similar to the nave roof, is of 15th-century construction with 5x8 panels and a moulded wall plate, and a tie-beam at the west end. The 19th-century heads frame the south wall openings. Some 19th-century encaustic tiles are present in the sanctuary. Altar rails are accompanied by two wrought-iron Gothic posts and a wooden rail. The 1885 east window depicts St Martin and Mary in a 15th-century style, though it is now eroded. A 19th-century shelf with an ogee arched head is found in the south-east corner.

A heavily tooled font, likely reworked from medieval origins, sits on a round shaft. The church also holds 19th-century pews and stalls, and a small, early 20th-century timber pulpit.

An 18th-century plaque at the west end records a gift of £40 per annum to the poor from the will of William Jones of Tregyrog. A 14th-century stone coffin lid, carved in relief with a Greek cross and foliate terminals, is embedded in the chancel north wall. It depicts eroded low relief robes and a higher relief head believed to be that of a priest, discovered during restoration work in 1885. Floor slabs in the tower commemorate Richard Edwards of Pen-y-clawdd, who died in 1673, and in the porch, Walter Edmonds, who died in 1676.