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
16133
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/06/1995
Date of Amendment
14/06/1995
Name of Property
Pen-y-Fron Baptist Chapel (including burial ground walls).
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Gwernaffield with Pantmwyn
Town
Locality
Pen-y-Fron
Easting
319682
Northing
365773
Street Side
Location
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Exterior
16133
Situated on the E side of Pen-y-fron Road on the N side of the settlement.
History: Built in 1825 it is the oldest surviving Baptist chapel in use in the former county of Flintshire, and is the only intact example with a square plan with central entrance in the side wall. The chapel was repaired and restored late C20 and furnishings brought from elsewhere.
Exterior: Rubble with roughly squared quoins and stepped architraves to openings. Renewed slate roof. Symmetrical elevation with a central entrance with C19 door flanked by sash windows with margin lights and textured glass, that to the right has renewed stone lintel. Above the door is a stone with a Welsh inscription from Isiah 55.3 and the date 1825. Outbuilding with C20 door attached to right. Left hand return elevation is rendered, rear elevation has 2 sash windows as before.
Rubble walls to burial ground extend from the front and rear of the building and return to form a rectangular enclosure containing gravestones. The wall was restored late C20.
Interior: Not accessible at the time of inspection March 1995.
Listed as a locally rare example of a Baptist Chapel with an early plan form which survives in relation to its burial ground.
References: Seaborne, M. Early Flintshire Chapel Plans Capel Newsletter 18, 1992 pp10-15. Additional information from M. Seaborne.
Interior
Reason for designation
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