St Mael & St Sulien

The church is approached through a lychgate erected in 1886. On either side of the church path there are gravestones from the late 18th century having low head and foot stones for kneeling. The church building is of local slate rubble stone with sandstone detailing under a pitched Welsh slate roof and is on an east/west axis. In the external east wall of the north porch is an unshapely monolith stone, standing six feet high called 'Carreg i big yn y fach rewllyd' or the pointed stone in the icy nook. Legend has it that all attempts to build the church in any other spot than where stood this stone failed. It is probably a prehistoric standing stone.

Inside the church there is an old Norman font dating from about 1100. The queen post roof in the nave has spaces filled with trefoils and quarterfoils. The date of 1687 is carved on one truss. Beneath a low arch in the north wall of the chancel is a recumbent grave slab with an effigy of a priest dated the end of the 14th century. There are beautiful stained glass windows including three by Clayton & Bell in the narrow lancet windows of the early 13th century above the altar. At the back of the church there is a medieval parish chest which was hewn out of a solid piece of oak and formerly kept the parish registers and plate.

The organ was built in 1905 by Norman & Beard of Norwich and presented to the church in memory of Dr James Richard Walker by his widow, Anne and son Dr Horatio Walker. Both men served the town as medical practitioners over many years and were major benefactors to the community. There are several memorials to them in the church. It is interesting that the blower to the organ was originally driven by a water turbine In the churchyard at the west end of the church there is a Celtic cross shaft bearing considerable resemblance to that of Eliseg’s Pillar at Llangollen It has lost its cross head and is dated between the 9th and 12th centuries.