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
18764
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/08/1997
Date of Amendment
11/08/1997
Name of Property
Bethel Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Bro Garmon
Town
Locality
Melin-y-Coed
Easting
281488
Northing
360505
Street Side
Location
Prominently sited in the centre of Melin-y-Coed, adjacent to Melin-y-Coed bridge on the N side of the Nant-y-Golon; in a rubble-walled and gated enclosure.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Non-conformist chapel founded in 1822, probably at the same time as the construction of the bridges at Melin-y-Coed; rebuilt in 1879.
Exterior
Rectangular chapel in simple Gothic style; of snecked, rough-dressed slatestone with light grey Penmaenmawr-type stone dressings; on a plain chamfered plinth. Slate roof with cast iron foliated finials to stone-coped, simply-kneelered gables. Symmetrical gabled entrance (W) front with single-storey gabled porch. This has a shouldered outer arch with roll-moulded segmental apex; plain chamfered inner ach with blind occuli to the lintel. Recessed boarded double-doors with decorative ironwork. Above the entrance an inset stone dedication plaque. Triple-window arrangement above porch in upper gable; segmentally-arched windows with chamfered jambs and slightly-projecting cills, original plain marginally-glazed sashes. Similar windows to 5-bay N and S sides, the latter with a C20 brick lean-to to its eastern bay; corrugated iron roof. 3 further windows to the E end with triple-window group as before; entrance with boarded door and chamfered jambs to R. Squat chimney with moulded capping and octagonal chimney pot off-centre at the gable apex.
Interior
Plain though unaltered interior with raking box pews of pitch-pine facing the railed Set Fawr at the rear; decoratve plaster rosette to coved ceiling.
Reason for designation
Included as an unspoilt C19 rural chapel and for group value with Melin-y-Coed bridge and its attendant revetment walls.
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