page_title: St Peirio's Church, Rhosbeirio
section_title: Architecture and fittings
hierarchical_section_title: St Peirio's Church, Rhosbeirio / Architecture and fittings
caption_attribution_description: English: Eglwys Rhosbeirio Church
context_page_description: St Peirio's Church is a small disused medieval church, in Rhosbeirio, Anglesey, north Wales. It is unclear when a church was first established on this site, although it has been said that this happened in about 605. The current structure, which may date from the 15th century, has been restored in the 18th and 19th centuries. It ceased being used for services some years ago and has been boarded up.
  It is a Grade II listed building, a national designation given to "buildings of special interest, which warrant every effort being made to preserve them", as "a simple, rural Medieval church" that retains "much of its original vernacular character" despite alterations. One 19th-century writer said that it was "one of the humblest ecclesiastical buildings in Anglesey", and that there were "no architectural features in this church worthy of delineation."
context_section_description: The church is built from rubble masonry dressed with freestone, and it has a slate roof, with a bellcote at the west end and stone crosses on the porch and chancel roofs. The timbers of the roof can be seen from inside. The walls have been assessed as being "probably not older than the fifteenth century". There is no internal division between the nave and the chancel, and the church as a whole is 36 feet (11 m) long by 13 feet 9 inches (4.19 m) wide. The porch, at the west end of the south wall, was added in the late 19th century. There is one window in the north wall and two in the south wall, all of which are single windows set in rectangular frames; the east window has a pair of lights (vertical sections of window separated by a mullion). All the windows date from the late 19th century. The plain bowl-shaped font dates from the 12th century. There is a brass memorial plaque recording three people who died in the 1640s. The 1937 survey by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire recorded that the church possessed a silver cup from 1630 and a salver dated 1784–85. The churchyard contains some gravestones, including a few dating from the 1980s and 1990s.
caption: The church from the south-west, showing the porch to the left
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