Church of SS Julius and Aaron

Church. Nave with two aisles, and chancel with flanking south chapel and north sacristy. Pantiled roof, random Old Red Sandstone and red brick dressings.

Tall 3 bay nave with double bellcote on eastern gable and lean-to aisles. 3 pointed windows to both south and north, brick surrounds with recessed arch with flush hoods and projecting imposts, concrete cills. West front is buttressed and with toothed stonework to north and south walls, suggesting the intention to build the longer building that had been planned originally. Two sets of paired lancets to either side of the central buttress, with similar windows in west walls of aisles divided by lower buttresses. Single storey entrance porch added to north, doorway (blocked internally) to south with boarded doors. South wall with pointed doorway.

High 3 bay chancel, with 3 lancet windows set high in the tall east gable facing St Julians Avenue, which has projecting gable canopy with sculpture of Christ on the cross. Small round headed window below the main windows, and 3-centred arched central doorway to the ground floor, flanked by flat headed square headed boarded openings. Roofline swept down over added south chapel, lower sacristy added to north, set back and with lean-to roof below, 3 high level round-arched chancel windows with square stack to left. Round window in the east wall of the north aisle and evidence of an earlier structure in the position of the sacristy with keying for a roofline, blocked door from the north aisle and continuation of the stonework of the north aisle in the exterior wall of the sacristy. Chapel and Ty Williams added to south (2012), two windows and door with steps from St Julians Avenue.

Wide aisled 3-bay nave divided by tall concrete piers with square bases and octagonal capitals supporting wide 4-centred red brick arches, the eastern end narrowed to accommodate openings to rood loft that was never installed.

Chancel of 3-bays with high, broad concrete chancel arch on rectangular brick imposts with dog tooth capitals. North wall with 3 high level lancets with below 4-centred arches, open to sacristy divided by dog tooth string course. South wall with two eastern arches blocked, west arch opened to added south chapel.

High barn like roof throughout with tie beams and wind braces. Full height Reredos in gothic style filling the eastern end of 1882 relocated in 1932 from Capel-y-ffin with altar and candle sticks also relocated.

South chapel of 2012 with slate floor and open arches to south aisle and chancel. South aisle with 3 windows, door at chapel end and two low level blind openings. Font of Caldey Island black marble on 5 circular shafts. North aisle also of 3 windows, door at west end. Nave with organ at w end, pulpit of stone and brick from 1980’s reordering.