Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
17748
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/02/1996
Date of Amendment
21/02/1996
Name of Property
Ffos-y-ffin Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Henfynyw
Town
Locality
Ffos-y-ffin
Easting
244805
Northing
260667
Street Side
Location
Situated on W side of A 487 in Ffos-y-ffin, set back in courtyard flanked by later chapel house and 1927 vestry.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Calvinistic Methodist chapel of 1831 with contemporary interior except for later pulpit.
Exterior
Unpainted roughcast with slate roof. Lateral facade with two large centre windows, plain outer doors and 12-pane upper gallery lights, all with plain cement heads. Centre windows are arch-headed with small-paned glazing and intersecting tracery in heads. Doors are double, 2-panel. End walls have a 16-pane sash.
Interior
No galleries; panelled box pews, grained in pale wood colour, arranged around 5-sided passage, those behind raked, and small block of pews facing pulpit and two rows left and right of pulpit. Great seat simply benches on fronts of three blocks of pews around pulpit. Later pulpit with steps up one side, curved angles and 2-panel front. Small boarded lobbies in corners. Plastered walls and flat ceiling.
Reason for designation
A remarkable survivor of an earlier C19 chapel, with pew arrangement in tightly packed radiating fashion, seen also at Bethel Chapel, Aberarth.
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