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
15862
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/03/1995
Date of Amendment
06/03/1995
Name of Property
Blaencefn Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Y Ferwig
Town
Locality
Ferwig
Easting
220739
Northing
250343
Street Side
Location
Situated some 2.5km NE of Ferwig village centre, 400m W of Lleine farm.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built in 1808 and rebuilt in 1837. Interior remodelled in 1884.
Exterior
1837 Calvinistic Methodist chapel built of coursed rubble stone, lateral facade to W. Slate roof. Two long arched small paned windows with marginal glazing bars. Two ledged doors with traceried overlights and sandstone voussoirs to cambered heads. Two long twelve pane sash gallery lights. Small slate plaque centre. Rendered S end wall with one 12 pane gallery sash window. Rendered rear E wall with one 12 pane gallery sash window and two 18 pane ground floor sash windows. N end rubble stone with gallery light and stone voussoirs.
Interior
Three sided gallery on 2 x 3 iron columns with leaf capitals by Woodward of Cardigan. Chamfered corners, cornice, horizontal panels between panelled piers. Pitch pine pews. Pulpit with balastered steps up each side and three sided front. Herring-bone boarded flat ceiling.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a chapel which retains its period character.
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