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.
Date of Designation
17/02/1997
Date of Amendment
17/02/1997
Name of Property
Capel Isaf
Location
At right-angles to the street immediately beyond Pont-y-Llan and overlooking the railway station to the N.
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
History
c1825; former independent congregationalist chapel with attached minister's house.
Exterior
Square rubble-built chapel with half-hipped slate roof. The NW (entrance) side has arched outer entrances with recessed boarded doors and segmental fanlights; these flank a pair of tall arched windows with multi-pane sashes and marginal glazing. The rear face (SE) has three tall, square-headed, 12-pane recessed sashes, again with marginal glazing; that to the L has only the upper half visible, the lower being obscured by a glazed single-storey lean-to extension. Part-rendered SW upper wall with weathercoursing where the chapel adjoins the manse.
Interior
This was not available for inspection at the time of survey (10/96).
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as a first-half C19 non-conformist chapel with good surviving exterior.
Group value with the adjoining Ty Capel Isaf.
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