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
20024
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/06/1998
Date of Amendment
26/06/1998
Name of Property
Capel Nebo
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Aberdaron
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Rhiw
Easting
222738
Northing
327749
Street Side
Location
Situated in Rhiw village about 150 m W of crossroads.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Independent Chapel rebuilt in 1876 on site of a chapel first built in 1813 and rebuilt 1857. Plaque is signed R ap Ieuan, Lleyn, who may have been the builder.
Exterior
Chapel in simple Gothic style. Rubble stone with slate roof and coped gables. Gable front with 2 pointed outer doors, 4-panel doors and y-tracery in overlights. Two centre pointed long windows with 2-light Y-tracery in timber. Stone voussoirs. Large oval recessed plaque above with stone voussoirs to surround and circular vent in gable apex, similar surround. Rendered right side wall with one long similar window and attached Ty Capel (q.v.). Left side has 3 similar windows, a straight joint to right of middle window suggests that some of the earlier fabric was kept. 2 similar windows in end wall.
Interior
Interior with plastered walls, no galleries, raked pews, plain 5-sided pulpit and panelled great seat. 2 lobbies. Ceiling has boarded outer band with 6 pierced vents at corners and centres of long sides. Central ornate plaster rose of sunflower form.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a rural chapel of the later C19.
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