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
21607
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/03/1999
Date of Amendment
31/03/1999
Name of Property
Capel Siloh
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanystumdwy
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Chwilog
Easting
243298
Northing
338435
Street Side
N
Location
The chapel is set in the rows of cottages which form the N side of the main street in the village.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The Congregational chapel was first built in 1869 as part of the rapid expansion of the village following the arrival of the railway. It was considerably altered in 1897 and now largely dates from this period.
Exterior
Rendered and lined out, with raised quoins and dressings, pebbledash in the pediment, and a slate roof. The gabled entrance of the chapel faces the street; a rusticated rendered plinth and central round-headed entrance, a pair of 4-panelled doors and fanlight set in a projecting portico on paired Corinthian pilasters. Arched architrave to the door with keystone rising to the moulded cornice. To either side, tall pilastered round-headed windows of similar detail rise from a moulded sill band, and margin glazing. Two similar but much smaller windows set above the portico pediment in the recessed panel. The string course at the base of the pediment breaks back over the panel, and an architraved arch at the centre includes the inscription SILOH / 1869.1897. Moulded raking pediments.
The forecourt of the chapel has railings on a low rendered wall with central square piers maintaining the line of the street.
Interior
Not accessible at the time of inspection.
Reason for designation
Included as a good late C19 village chapel with a well detailed and carefully balanced elevation, which is an important element in the great expansion of the small scattered community to form a village which took place in the 1860s.
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