Parish Church of St. Non

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The foundation of the parish church of Llannerch Aeron dates back to at least 1284 in the reign of Edward I, when there was a large medieval settlement in what is now the adjoining parkland which seems to have been deserted around 1500. The cost of the church's remodelling (forty pounds) was met by parishioners, underwritten by Major Lewis c.1796. There is no documentation to prove the new building work was planned by John Nash but Nash is known to have designed the mansion and at least aided the design of a minister's house and a coachman's house not far from the church. The internal restoration of the church was paid for in 1878 by Mary Ashby Lewis, the daughter-in-law of William Lewis, who was widowed for 62 years and died in 1917 aged 104. When her husband John had been interred in the family vault on 13 July 1855, it was diaried by an Aberaeron chemist that "There were nine other coffins there; some had been there over 100 years".