Interior
Whitewashed plastered walls and shallow curved plaster roof. W end has projection carrying bellcote
framing deep-set W window with moulded segmental-pointed rear arch dying into piers. N side has moulded segmental-pointed head to N door presumably of 1883 and ovolo-moulded cambered heads to 3-light
windows. S side has similar windows and small Tudor arched S door to right (now into vestry) with 6 fielded
panels, the top ones Tudor-arched. Chancel arch of 1840s has plain imposts over paired thin piers with
caps and bases, cut-back on W side for removed screen and a fine carved angel above each side. Arch has applied neo-Norman chevron ornament, double zigzag to soffit and thin zig-zag to chamfered edges.
Massive grotesque head keystone. Single step to chancel which has broad curved pointed ceiling divided by transverse thin ribs and with leafs and rosettes at intersections with ridge. E end corbel carved with Lamb of God, W end with dragon. Moulded cornices with shield-bearing angels at 4 corners, the E ones with chevron and fleur- de-lys Williams arms. N door has rounded flat hood over. E end altar is flanked by two tomb recesses with octagonal side piers and broad ogee arches with crockets and cusping, carved leafs in apex of ogee which is carried up to a carved finial. In each recess is an early C19 panelled stone tomb chest with pointed panels carrying a fine Gothic effigy, a female to left, a knight to right. In back of recesses are Gothic-lettered inscriptions in Welsh to medieval lords of Neath. Between the effigies is a reredos with top moulding linked to caps of piers of recesses. Reredos of 3 painted stone panels, carved with motifs, stone altar on two columns. Y-tracery to E window (without the cusping seen outside).
Fittings: octagonal granite font, chamfered below and broached to fit tall square pier with crude panel on
front of fleur-de-lys in lozenge, font possibly medieval, shaft possibly C17. Lectern c2000 carved oak near
replica of C17 eagle lectern that was stolen. Painted grained furnishings of c1850-60 including pews with
panel backs diagonally-boarded and moulded arm-rests. Pew frontals have open panels with turned
balusters over pierced squares. Pulpit has painted grained 3-sided panelled front with tracery, carried on
stone base on three squat whitewashed Gothic columns. Stone steps up from side with brass rail. Turned
balusters to altar rails on 3 sides of altar. Chancel chairs said to have been for Aberpergwm each side,
joined rows of gable-backed chairs with crockets and finials and sunflower panel to each chair back, row of
seven on N, row of 8 on S. Reading desk in oak looks mid to later C19 with vesica pane each side carved
with symbols, plaque of c1940.
Memorials: Chancel has fine alabaster neo-early C18 style memorial to Captain Idris Williams, killed
1915, and fine bronze neo-Renaissance plaque with cherubs and scroll to Morgan S. Williams (d 1909) and
his wife (d 1928). E end has plaques each side, four with an ogee-pointed top piece to give a unity (two
each side in matching positions). Left side has plaque to George Williams (d 1796) and daughter (d 1800),
the ogee top to Mrs Williams (d 1792); Tudor-arched Bath stone plaque to Rees Williams (d 1849); white
marble C20 replica of ogee-topped plaque to Rees Williams (d 1812) and Anne Williams (d 1834);
armorial plaque to George Williams (d 1796), possibly also a replica. Right side has plaque to William
Williams (d 1788) with ogee top piece; Tudor style marble plaque to Lleishon de A Williams (d 1860);
ogee plaque to Winifred Harcland; and plaque of 1784 to family of Eleanor Aubrey of Ynyscedwen.
Chancel S ribboned oval marble plaque to Eliza and Maria Williams (d 1871 and 1873); fine neo-early C18
plaque with bobbin-turned columns and broken pediment to Captain G. Williams killed 1879 in the Zulu
War; brass plaque to Rees Williams (d 1863). Nave N has 2 brass plaques to Penrose family of Clynybont
with dates of death 1834 to 1905. S side marble neo-Grec plaque to Morgan Morgan of Abernanthir (d
1837) and his wife (d 1843).
Glass: Windows have pretty leaded glass presumably of 1883 in clear to blue narrow pieces except where
there is stained glass. E window has four pieces of early C16 German stained glass set in patterned glass
of flowers and scrolls on clear ground, of c.1883. The panels show: monk kneeling before St Barbara (lower
left), Premonstratensian monk kneeling before St Augustine (upper left), Abbot John IV kneeling before an
unshown image of Christ (lower right), and Abbot John V. von Münstereiful kneeling before the Virgin Mary
(upper right). N window of 1884 by Hardman of Christ with SS Peter and John to D. Llewellyn.