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
21434
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/03/1999
Date of Amendment
08/03/1999
Name of Property
Capel Peniel, with adjoining manse and forecourt railings
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanbedrog
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Llanbedrog
Easting
232175
Northing
331897
Street Side
S
Location
The chapel stands back from the road at the top of a sloping forecourt, bound on both sides by buildings.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The chapel was built in 1866 for the Calvinistic Methodist community of Llanbedrog.
Exterior
Built of coursed rubble, with a slate roof. Wide gabled front with a slightly recessed central arch feature containing two attenuated 12-pane round-headed timber windows, the head of each containing intersecting glazing bars. Above, a circular slate panel engraved with the name 1866 / PENIEL. To either side framed and boarded doors, each with a round-headed fanlight with similar Regency Gothic detail. Projecting bargeboards fixed to 4 projecting purlins each side. The side has 5 similar round-headed windows with stressed keystones. Rendered at the rear, the windows replaced.
Attached to the right, the chapel house. Irregular rubble stonework with a slated roof. Two storeys, 3 closely spaced windows. Central part-glazed door and modern uPVC windows.
The generous-scaled gravelled forecourt slopes down from the chapel and is defined by trefoil-headed cast iron railings set on dwarf stone walls. At the lower end, 3 slender stone piers with large caps.
Interior
Plain interior, with plastered walls, a boarded dado and boarded ceiling, coved around all sides. The pulpit is set between the entrance door lobbies, within a gallery topped set fawr, and is raised over steps. The pews are set in 4 banks, each of 18 places across, with two aisles. Clock by John Edwards of Llanbedrog, 1903, and a 1914-1918 brass memorial.
Reason for designation
Included as a mid C19 chapel designed still within the late Georgian tradition, of generous proportions, which, with its attached house, school and forecourt walls, forms a focal point in the quasi-urban development of upper Llanbedrog.
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