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
16077
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/06/1995
Date of Amendment
20/06/1995
Name of Property
Capel Brynmair
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberporth
Town
Locality
Aberporth
Easting
226729
Northing
250191
Street Side
Location
Situated approximately 1.6 km SE of Aberporth Bay on a minor road 500m S of B4333, Aberporth to Beulah road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Independent chapel built 1833 and remodelled 1896-97.
Exterior
Whitewashed stucco with hipped slate roof and apex ventilator. Square plan. Round arched windows and cambered headed doors, all details 1896-97. Doors ledged with overlights, pilasters and moulded arches. Two long windows to centre and two shorter similar over door, with 2-light timber tracery, plain stucco surrounds and bracketed sills. Centre date plaque in similar surround. Plain 2-storey two window left side and rear.
Interior
Attractive 1896-97 interior with 3-sided gallery on five iron columns marked T. Jones and Sons, Carmarthen. Gallery front is curved at corners and has long panels of ornate pierced cast-iron. Simple cornices above and below. Pulpit at entry end with baluster steps each side, two Gothic arched panels to front and baluster panels each side. Plaster arch to wall behind with ornate brackets. Porches inset each side of pulpit under galleries. Timber boarded ceiling in panels, coved edge and cornice.
Reason for designation
An early C19 chapel with attractive late C19 interior.
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