Is a handsome, embattled, cruciform structure, consisting of a chancel, nave, ailes, and transept, with a square tower, surmounted by a low flat kind of spire. The present edifice, exclusive of the chancel, appears to have been rebuilt, in the time of Edward III., and the latter was repaired in the beginning of the last century. The inside of the entrance porch, and the external part of the south end of the transept, are decorated with rude, but curious carvings. On the latter are the figures of a dragon, a man leading a bear, and other grotesque representations. On the pediments and embattlements are cherubic heads; and one or two figures in supplicating posture. The exterior carvings, in consequence of being executed on soft stone, and exposed to the sea, are almost mouldered away; under the porch, however, where sheltered from the weather, they are much more perfect. There is the following inscription, in Gothic characters, on the north side of the Church,—“_Sancte Kybi_; _ora pro nobis_.” “During the last century (says the Rev. John Price, in his account of Holyhead) the natives showed the print of Kybi’s foot in a rock by the east end of the chancel, till it was destroyed by the Rev. Mr. Ellis, Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, then Curate of this place.” Long be our Father’s temple ours; Woe to the hand by which it falls; A thousand spirits watch its towers; A cloud of angels guard its walls. And be their shield by us possessed; Lord, rear around thy blest abode The buttress of a holy breast, The rampart of a present God. THE CHURCH WALLS Are considered a very perfect specimen of Roman architecture. The form is parallelogram, about 220 feet long, and about 130 broad; three of its sides consist of massive walls, 6 feet thick, and 17 in height; the fourth is open to the harbour, having only a low parapet laid on the precipitous cliffs. At the north-east angle is a circular bastion tower; and along the walls are two rows of circular holes, four inches in diameter, having the inside smoothly plastered. The cement, mixed with coarse pebbles, is extremely hard, and this, in conjunction with other circumstances, exhibits ancient marks of Roman masonry. The Church, altogether, will repay the time spent in its examination. THE FILIAL REQUEST. Beloved Holyhead, farewell! Every object around thee is dear; Thy promontory, and meadows, and dell, Where I wandered for many a year. But oft has the ocean’s blue wave Flowed lately, commixt with my tears; Since my Mother was laid in her grave, Where yon hallowed turret appears. Oh! Sexton remember the spot, And lay me beside her cold bed Whenever this body is brought To sleep in belov’d Holyhead.