St David's church is located on the west side of the B4356, set back from the road in a rectangular churchyard used as a cemetery. It is a church reconstructed in Victorian Gothic - on a more ancient site - a small single-chambered church restored in 1874 by Henry Curzon, the chancel rebuilt and extended in 1905 by R.Wellings Thomas. The church is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble blocks with freestone dressings, and stone slate roof with crested ridge tiles and with exposed arch-braced timbers to the east gable. It consists of a low nave and chancel, an open timbered porch on a stone plinth on the south-west, lean-to north-west vestry under a stone-tiled roof with Arts & Crafts leaded glazing and stone gabled chimney (1905), and a shingled bellcote with low spire on the west. The latter replaced the top of a low west tower; quatrefoils were added to its base by Curzon. The sanctuary end has a square-headed two-light window incorporating fragments of fifteenth-century tracery in the south wall. The Decorated east window dates from 1905. Otherwise, windows are mostly paired lancets of 1874.
Inside, the nave roof has a single collar truss with curved hammer braces, while the chancel roof alternates trussed common rafters with elaborated collar beam trusses with arcaded infill. Fittings include the tall chancel screen of three arches with simple detail; a reredos of Early English blank arcading (both by Wellings Thomas); a Perpendicular font; a stoup in the chancel with lobed round bowl (?thirteenth century); and a late seventeenth-century pulpitwith carved panels, from Pilleth church (NPRN 96544).
Sources:
Extracts from Cadw Listing description.
R.Scourfield & R.Haslam, Buildings of Wales: Powys (2013), p.419-20.

RCAHMW, 1 September 2015