Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
15526
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/02/1995
Date of Amendment
01/02/1995
Name of Property
Capel Seion
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Corwen
Town
Locality
Corwen
Easting
307755
Northing
343523
Street Side
Location
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
A Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, established in 1800 and rebuilt in 1873. The school rooms to the rear were added in 1901.
Exterior
Roughly coursed and squared stone with freestone dressings and slate roof. Entrance in gable facing street: Shallow segmental archway with stilted hood-mould in shallow gabled porch projection. Full-height round-arched window recesses, set back in pointed arched panels to either side: flat stone lintels to lower windows, round arched heads above with impost bands. Above the entrance, a composite geometric window in round-arched recess with triple round-arched lights with continuous impost band and quatrefoil window above. Decorative quoining to angles, and ball finials to gable coping. 5-window return elevations, 2 storeyed, with round arched upper windows, and shaped stone lintels to lower openings. Windows all sashes with margin lights. School room forms a separate range at right angles to the rear, linked to the chapel by a single storeyed lobby.
Interior
Reason for designation
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