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
17043
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/01/1996
Date of Amendment
05/01/1996
Name of Property
Salem Baptist Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llansanffraid Glan Conwy
Town
Locality
Pentrefelin
Easting
280538
Northing
374520
Street Side
Location
Located on the NE side of the Bryn Mynan lane at the S extremity of Pentrefelin; behind a low plain-coped and railed wall.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Exterior
Chapel and manse, founded in 1786 and remodelled 1841; of rendered rubble, with slate roofs, hipped to the chapel. This is basically symmetrical with single-storey hipped-roofed outer porches and 2 multi-pane central windows with moulded entablature and arched heads; framed date plaque inset between these, modern boarded doors. Projecting forward at L, and overlapping the main block slightly is a rendered, gabled wing with longer left-hand roof pitch; plain bargeboards and wooden finial. 16-pane recessed sash window with simple stucco architrave; beneath this, a passage leading to the graveyard at the rear. Three tall 12-pane near-flush windows to the rear with gently cambered heads.
Interior
The interior was not inspected during the survey (October 1995).
Reason for designation
A mid C19 chapel and manse group with earlier origins and in a prominent road-side location.
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