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
17069
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
15/12/1995  
Date of Amendment
15/12/1995  
Name of Property
Pen-yr-heol Chapel  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Gwernyfed  
Town
 
Locality
Tregoyd  
Easting
320897  
Northing
235894  
Street Side
 
Location
Located on the elevated plateau, below the Black Mountain peak Twmpa, within its well-furnished graveyard.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
A baptist chapel of the early C19, daughter of Treble Hill.  

Exterior
Colourwashed stone with a half-hipped slate roof. A single cell with an added boiler house extension at right angles with a large terminal stack, the addition with a stone slate roof. Two bays. C20 blockwork porch added at the NW front end with asbestos slates, re-using double planked doors and 'Y'-tracery pointed windows. The original inner entrance consists of a pair of 3-panel doors. At the sides, 2 pointed headed timber windows with stone voussoirs. A stone inscription panel on the SW side reads: The Memoir of/TWO HUNDRED AND /FORTY POUNDS of The/Pious Donation of /Thomas Williams/of the Island GENT/in the Parish of/ Llanigon and County/ of Brecon, band/for the Use and Benefit/of this Penyrheol/Church for ever. // Ll.....ve 1 ft.  

Interior
Very simple plastered interior. The roof has open timber trusses dividing 2 central full bays and quarter-bays at the ends. Pulpit a part-octagon set against the E window, which has been partially covered.  

Reason for designation
Listed as a well preserved upland chapel in a fine setting, and amidst many early-mid C19 gravestones of interest.  

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