Church of St Arvan

The Church of St Arvan is a building of local sandstone construction, with Bath limestone used for the openings of the 1883 structure and the tower windows. Welsh slate roofs cover the building, with thicker slate on the tower roof. The church comprises a nave with north and south aisles, a separate chancel, an octagonal west tower, a south porch, a vestry on the north wall of the chancel, and a sexton's store situated in the angle between the tower and the south aisle.

The nave walls are largely obscured by the aisles, chancel, and tower, with only small sections of the east and west gables visible. The steeply pitched roofs feature coped gables, including an east gable cross. The north and south aisles are similar in design, the south aisle incorporating a projecting porch which replaces a window, featuring a three-centred arch and a steep gable with a cross. Low walls incorporate two-light windows with trefoil heads, two on the southern side and three on the north. Each side has three gabled dormers, each with timber fronts featuring two trefoil-headed lights and a trefoil light above. The end walls of the aisles have unusual stepped triple-light windows with trefoil heads. The chancel south wall contains the priest's door and another two-light window matching those on the aisles; this window is of around 1300. The east gable wall has a three-light window with uncusped lights and three trefoils in the head above, topped with a coped gable and cross. The north wall is blank, partially obscured by a projecting gabled vestry of 1883, which has a paired lancet window on its east wall, a single window with a trefoil light above on its north wall, and an arched doorway. The west tower is square with chamfered corners and a pyramid roof. It is divided into three stages by plat bands. The lower stage has a doorway with a cranked head and impost blocks. The second stage has a Victorian window composed of two tall lancets with a quatrefoil above. The bell stage features a pointed opening with a louvre on each face, alongside a slit to each chamfer.

The churchyard contains a range of 19th-century memorials, most notably the chest tomb of Zouch Turton, who died in 1814, located in the southwest corner. The churchyard is enclosed by a stone wall with wrought iron gates on the west side.

Internally, the church is plastered and painted, with stone dressings left exposed. The three-bay nave arcades and the chancel arch are in a 14th-century style. The tower arch is screened by an oak screen installed in 1931, with a later glazed interlace head. The nave roof comprises three bays of arch-braced collar beams with kingposts. The chancel roof is a two-bay waggon roof with carved and painted ribs, extending into a further bay over the altar which is ceiled and painted. All fittings are Victorian or later, including Victorian benches. The east window dates to 1932, while the priest's desk is from 1942. The reredos and panelling were added in 1946, and oak choir stalls and a communion rail date to around 1960. A single bell is said to be dated 1752. Electric lighting was installed in 1924 as a memorial to Henry Clay of Piercefield, who died in 1921.