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
19960
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
11/06/1998  
Date of Amendment
11/06/1998  
Name of Property
Former Mount Zion Primitive Methodist Chapel and Graveyard  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Llangollen Rural  
Town
Llangollen  
Locality
Froncysyllte  
Easting
327012  
Northing
341211  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated next to school and stands within small graveyard on hill south of A5 road.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Small nonconformist chapel erected c1858 on land which had been acquired by the trustees of the proposed chapel in the same year. Subsequent to building a new Primitive Methodist chapel in 1914 on the main road (opposite St David's Church) Mount Zion was used as an additional classroom for the adjoining school (built 1863). Chapel is now used as school refectory.  

Exterior
Roughly squared limestone walls with sandstone door and window surrounds, slate roof with terra-cotta ridge cresting. Single storey gable front with central stone porch with round-headed doorway and blocked fanlight, tall round-headed windows with key-blocked arches on either side and small name plaque above porch, now very eroded with only the word 'Chapel' and 'M...' discernible. Modern, plain wood door. Side elevations each with two tall square-headed 24-pane sash windows. Mid-ridge, slate-covered vent.  

Interior
Wood panelled dado. Coloured glass marginal panes to front windows. Flat ceiling with embossed decorative pattern, narrow coving and central vent outlet.  

Reason for designation
Listed as the earliest surviving chapel in the locality and a good example of traditional nonconformist architecture.  

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