St Fagan's Church, Trecynon

It was originally built in the mid-nineteenth century in the Gothic Revival style, but burned down a few years later and was rebuilt.

The church was designed by the architect Thomas Talbot Bury of London (a former pupil of A. W. N. Pugin) and built between 1851 and 1853 at a cost of £1,795.

[1] In March 2007 the church made the national news headlines when the vicar Rev.

Paul Bennett, who lived in the Vicarage behind the church, was found stabbed to death in the churchyard.

[6] The church, in a Decorated Gothic style, has snecked Duffryn rubble walls with bath stone dressings, stepped buttresses with a slate roof, gables with parapets and crucifix finials.