| Ddisgrifiad / Description | The Church stands at 900 feet above sea level in the uplands at the west of the Parish, away from modern centres of population. It consisted of a Nave with a South Porch, a Chancel, and North and South Chapels. The latter now demolished. The Nave is the oldest part of the structure but contains no precise evidence of date. It seems to have been re-roofed and perhaps ceiled about 1700. The Chancel, together with its Roof and Screen are of the fifteenth century. The North Chapel is Elizabethan and the South Chapel was probably of that period. It was destroyed about 1800. The Altar furnishings and the Welsh Texts on the East Wall are of about 1600; the Pulpit is of about 1700 and a Gallery (now gone) was erected at the West end of the Nave about 1800. The Saint's Well lies at the South corner of the Churchyard. It is possible that a round hut nearby is associated with the early Christian occupation. The Bell in the Bellcote is inaccesible and is apparently seventeenth or eighteenth century and unscribed.
There are many memorials outside including a stone slab to Sidney, daughter of Lancelot Bulkeley, 1684; a stone tomb to Catherine, wife of Lancelot Bulkeley, 1694; also to Lancelot Bulkeley, 1719; a stone slab to Owen Bulkeley, 1737; a stone tomb to Foulk Griffith, 1745; also to Jane Williams; a slate slab to Thomas Jones, 1749, etc.
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