St Cybi's Church

St Cybi’s Church stands in the Monmouthshire village of Llangybi, a 13th- or 14th-century parish church rebuilt in the 15th century and restored in 1909–10. The building is Grade II* listed and holds medieval wall paintings, including a Christ of the Trades from about 1460. John Newman, writing in The Buildings of Wales, called it one of the most interesting churches in the Usk Valley. The church is dedicated to St Cybi, a 6th-century Cornish saint said to have founded it. The interior shows work by W H Dashwood Caple, who led the early-20th-century restoration. Among the fittings are a 17th-century painted inscription, an 1805 funerary monument to John Morgan, and a 1933 organ. Simon Jenkins praised the restoration as masterly, while Newman noted the church’s varied historical layers. Inside, the nave’s medieval roof has been uncovered during recent work. The west tower has two storeys and no buttresses, and the pulpit is an 18th-century reconstruction with a sounding board. Outside, the churchyard contains graves of victims from a 19th-century murder case, and a Holy Well dedicated to St Cybi lies just beyond the gate.