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
21493
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/03/1999
Date of Amendment
17/03/1999
Name of Property
Capel Cae Craig
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llangernyw
Town
Abergele
Locality
Llangernyw
Easting
289026
Northing
363521
Street Side
Location
The chapel stands on an elevated site, gable end to the N side of the minor road linking the B5384 with the road between Gwytherin and Llangernyw, approximately 3km ESE of Pandy Tudur.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
According to the religious census (1851) the Calvinistic Methodist chapel at Caer (sic) Craig was 'erected about 1843'.
Exterior
Simple domestic scale Vernacular chapel, rectangular on plan with later porch. Built of local stone rubble with distinctive slate hanging on S and W elevation; roughcast render on N and E elevations and porch. Welsh slate gabled roof with clayware ridge and slate verges. W elevation has pair of 9/9 sash windows with majority of handmade glass panes. Symmetrical E elevation has central gabled porch with slate roof and moulded and scalloped bargeboards with carved apex finial; 4-pane window in gable and boarded door on S side. Porch flanked by two 9/9 sash windows. Small forecourt to S of porch enclosed by low rendered wall with oversailing coping and wrought iron gate with fleur de lis spearheads.
Interior
Plain plastered interior with pine boarded dado, pews and pulpit.
Reason for designation
Included as an example of a small, relatively intact, isolated rural nonconformist chapel of the earlier C19.
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