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
19015
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/11/1997
Date of Amendment
27/05/2005
Name of Property
Pennal Independent Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Cadfarch
Town
Locality
Glaspwll
Easting
273843
Northing
297647
Street Side
Location
In the Llyfnant Valley on the N side of Glaspwll, fronting a group of 2 farm buildings at Cae Saer. A farmyard boundary wall adjoins the NW angle of the chapel, with a gate to the S. The farm buildings are probably early- and late-C19, with alterations.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Small vernacular chapel of c1822, perhaps refitted c1870.
Exterior
Small symmetrical single-storey 2-window chapel. Constructed of large blocks of random stone, white-washed to front, under a slate roof. Long-wall facade with central entrance containing a panelled door with 4-pane rectangular overlight under a timber lintel. The windows, flanking entrance, are narrow 12-pane horned sashes, immediately under the eaves. To rear, central 12-pane horned sash under a head of stone voussoirs lighting pulpit. Disturbed masonry with some large boulders to rear may indicate earlier origins.
Interior
Wooden pulpit and set fawr enclosure with floral reliefs and roundels; wooden benches; deeply splayed windows, roof ceiled at collar level.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved early C19 vernacular rural chapel.
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