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
17594
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/09/1964
Date of Amendment
04/06/1996
Name of Property
Capel y Drindod
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llandyfriog
Town
Locality
Aberbanc
Easting
235491
Northing
241809
Street Side
Location
Prominently situated on steep slope in village centre
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Calvinistic Methodist chapel built 1864. I replaced an earlier chapel of 1794, set up by the Lloyd family of Bronwydd.
Exterior
Squared rubble construction. Slate roof, timber eaves and bargeboards . Low plinth. Three bay gable front. Wide central round arched doorway with pared 6-panel doors, panelled reveals and radiating fanlight with some coloured glazing. Dressed stone voussiors. Tall round arched window each side, each with in similarly arched recess, 45-paned horned sash windows with radiating upper glazing. Dressed stone voussoirs. and slate sills. Lozenge-shaped tablet to gable inscribed: "Capel y Drindod. Adeiladwyd 1864".
Three similar windows to each side and two to rear. N side with C20 brick lean-to at right end.
Interior
Flat plaster ceiling with large central plaster rose and four smaller plainer roses towards the corners. Moulded plaster cornice. Box-type pews with doors (except those towards rear of side ranks): brass numerals. Panelled canted front to big seat. Elaborate veneered serpentine fronted pulpit; panelled lower section, central panel above with short balustraded flanks. Balustraded outer bays returning to curved staircases: turned balusters and square newels with ogee finals. Rear lobby widow with centre lozenge pane and coloured marginal glazing.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well designed rural chapel with unaltered interior.
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