[1] Its parish church is dedicated to Saints Afran, Ieuan, and Sanan.

[2] The parish's former church is now a protected building.

Browne Willis[3] and Sabine Baring-Gould[4] considered "Afran" to be a corruption of Afan, a saint of Ceredigion and Brecknockshire.

(The 16th-century Peniarth MS 147 concurs, listing the church as dedicated to "Sannan and Afan and Evan".

[4]) St Afan was related to the Cuneddan dynasty of Gwynedd and was claimed as an ancestor by a 10th-century Ieuan martyred by Viking raiders.