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
21080
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/01/1999
Date of Amendment
16/03/2005
Name of Property
Capel Salem, including attached house, forecourt wall and outbuilding
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Pontarfynach
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Mynydd Bach
Easting
271878
Northing
276591
Street Side
Location
About 2km W of Devil's Bridge (Pontarfynach); below N side of minor road parallel to A 4120.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Disused chapel dated of 1812 and 1844, under conversion to house 2004. Present building of 1844 with late C19 or early C20 alterations. Original symmetrical lateral facade altered probably by narrowing right window and substituting door for a window adjoining. House/vestry under reconstruction 2004, gutted internally.
Exterior
Chapel, house/vestry and outbuilding, rubble stone with slate roofs. Chapel has late C19 cement render to lateral front with inscription "Salem, Mynyddbach, 1844" in raised cement letters. Small slate datestone at eaves left. Altered facade: two 12-pane horned sash windows at different levels to left, the outer one slightly higher, later C19 gable porch and narrow outer window to right. Board door and overhanging verges to porch.
Rubble stone rear with two 12-pane sashes with brick heads. Slate-hung right end wall with overhanging verges.
To left, attached 2-storey, 2-bay house/vestry, rendered with stone chimney to left. On first floor, two 20-pane sash windows (removed 2004); on ground floor, doorway to extreme right and sash window with marginal glazing bars to left (removed 2004). Left gable end, dismantled 2004, had, to rear, steps up to first floor panelled door, and attic window.
To left again, single-storey rubble stone outbuilding with slate roof, yellow brick left end chimney, small window to front left and doorway in left end gable.
The chapel and house/vestry are behind stone forecourt wall with iron gates to each end.
Interior
Interior partly dismantled 2004. Flat ceiling with five small roundels. Wood panelled dado, raking floor with box pews. Set fawr enclosure with rail. Painted grained pulpit with canted panelled front and turned balusters each side. Arched panelled pulpit-back.
Reason for designation
Included as a mid C19 rural chapel in long wall tradition.
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