Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
14527
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/04/1994
Date of Amendment
15/04/1994
Name of Property
Penybryn Baptist Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Cilgerran
Town
Locality
Penybryn
Easting
217788
Northing
242904
Street Side
Location
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Exterior
14527
Situated on NE corner of crossroads at Penybryn on A478.
Exterior: 1869 Baptist Chapel in banded Cilgerran stone with slate roof and fretted bargeboards. Gable front with lunette plaque 'Penybryn Baptist chapel built in the year 1818 Rebuilt 1869'. Three first-floor arched windows, two ground-floor windows and centre door all with cambered heads. Cut stone voussoirs, slate sills, sashes with marginal glazing bars and double 2-panel doors with overlight. Raised band between floors. Two-storey two-window sides, with similar windows. One arched rear window.
Interior: Box pews, three-sided gallery with long horizontal panels, fluted iron columns made by T Thomas of Cardigan. Pulpit possibly later, recess behind with cornice.
Front spearhead railings with dog-bars, pair of wrought iron gates with scrolls. End stone piers with pyramid caps.
An attractive C19 chapel with unusual banded stonework. Similar to Ty-Rhos Chapel, Rhos Hill.
Interior
Reason for designation
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