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
25197
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
25/05/2001  
Date of Amendment
25/05/2001  
Name of Property
Former chapel and chapel house to Horeb Chapel  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Cray  
Town
Brecon  
Locality
Cwm Crai  
Easting
288966  
Northing
224957  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated on a minor road on the W side of Cwm Crai some 800m NW of Crai village.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Former Calvinistic Methodist chapel of about 1830 converted to vestry and schoolroom about 1899 when the new chapel was built with late C19 added chapel house, possibly of 1899.  

Exterior
Former chapel and house, painted rubble stone with slate eaves roof and brick right end stack. Chapel to left has 2 big arched windows and one blocked door, to left. Windows have 24-pane glazing with Gothic intersecting bars in the heads and thick tooled stone sills. Late C19 brick-framed board door with 3-pane overlight to right. House has two-window range, 5-pane sashes above, C20 plastic door and window below. Brick surrounds. Chapel left end wall is hung with C20 asbestos slates.  

Interior
Chapel interior stripped of fittings, late C19 dado boarding and fireplace. One rear gallery window.  

Reason for designation
Included as an earlier C19 long-wall chapel with original small-paned glazing.  

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