St Eugrad's Church

St Eugrad’s Church stands in a quiet field on Anglesey’s north-east edge, half a mile from the village of Marian-glas. A low lane leads past farm buildings to the oval churchyard, where yew and hawthorn trees frame the grey stone walls. The building began as a 12th-century nave and chancel, with later additions: a 16th-century north chapel, 19th-century porch and vestry. Inside, the oldest fabric is the plain 12th-century font and the wide chancel arch, now plastered over. The church is worth the journey for its medieval heart and the stories it holds. A 13th-century carved stone shows a crude crucifixion scene above a worn water stoup. A memorial in Art Nouveau style remembers John Groome, the Royal Charter’s fourth officer, lost when the ship sank off Anglesey in 1859. The Grade II* listing recognises the chancel arch as a rare early survivor and the chapel roof as a fine 16th-century example. Visitors step through the south porch into a small nave lit by clear-glazed windows. The 12th-century arch divides it from the narrower chancel, where a 1644 wooden panel once formed part of a pulpit. The north chapel, added in the 1500s, holds a blocked 16th-century doorway and a 19th-century east window with trefoil tracery. Outside, the pebbledashed walls and stone crosses mark the building’s simple Decorated style.