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
24522
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/01/2001
Date of Amendment
19/01/2001
Name of Property
Moriah Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanwrtyd Wells
Town
Builth Wells
Locality
Abergwesyn
Easting
285368
Northing
252582
Street Side
Location
Set back from the W side of the road through Abergwesyn and reached by a short path. The entrance is to the W end.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Independent chapel built in 1828 and rebuilt in 1867 to serve a rural community. The contemporary outshut is a stable. The entrance faces W because the road layout has been changed.
Exterior
Small single-storey chapel with porch to W end and continuous outshut on N side. Constructed of rubble stone under a slate roof, rendered to the S side. The W end is slate-hung to the upper half and rendered below. Small gabled porch with planked door under a shouldered lintel bearing an inscription 'Moriah/Built 1828/Rebuilt 1867'. The S side is 2-window, both tripartite horned sashes with coloured margin glazing under flat heads. The E gable end has 2 similar windows under shallow segmental heads of stone voussoirs. To the R, leading into the stable outshut, is a boarded door with similar head. The N side has a planked door to the R immediately under the eaves.
Interior
Simple interior. Three-bay roof with canted boarded ceiling. Central bank of pews with carved bench ends and aisles to either side. Octagonal wood panelled pulpit to E end with blind trefoil-headed arches and open quatrefoils. Flanking stairs with turned balusters. There is said to have been a gallery along the S side at one time. Shaped marble tablet with triangular head behind pulpit, to Richard James (d. 1919), minister for 49 years. On the N wall is a simple marble tablet with triangular head to Morgan Jenkins, 1840-1921, draper of Swansea who was born at Penybont Uchaf, Abergwesyn. It is by E L Davies, Llanwrtyd. Stable to N not entered.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine, small, rural chapel with contemporary stable retaining its character in a remote upland location.
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