25816

 

II  

Designated  

22/10/2001  

22/10/2001  

Tal-y-Bont Chapel including forecourt walls and railings  

 

Gwynedd  

Llanycil  

Bala  

Rhyd-Uchaf  

290078  

337900  

 

On the corner of the road junction in the centre of the village.  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

 

Methodist chapel founded 1810 and rebuilt in its present form in 1870.  

Medium-sized Victorian village chapel in eclectic Romanesque style. Snecked, rough-dressed slatestone facing with quoins and dressings of pale grey limestone ashlar. Medium-pitched slate roof with coped and kneelered gable parapets; surmounting decorative iron finial to the front gable and a squat brick boiler chimney to the rear. The facade is symmetical and comprises a single-storey porch projection to the centre with windows to either side and above. The porch is in the form of a lean-to, with a gabled and advanced central section. This has a segmentally-arched entrance with moulded arch and boarded door; surmounting coped, kneelered gable with iron finial as before. Above the entrance, within the gable, is a stone plaque with the inscribed dates 1870 and 1937. Flanking the entrance are single bays with dentilated eaves and small rectangular windows to the front and returns; these are of plain 2-pane sash type, with marginal glazing. To either side of the porch projection are tall round-arched windows with labels having carved, foliated stops; 10-pane C20 glazing with plain segmental head. Above the porch is a large central window of plate tracery type; overall round arch with label as before and, within, 3 round-arched lights supporting a rose. The sides are of 4 bays with plain dividing buttresses. Large round-arched windows with 9-pane C20 glazing and projecting sills. Enclosing a forecourt in front of the chapel's facade are the contemporary low forecourt walls. These have chamfered limestone copings with surmounting spear-headed railings; corner piers with stopped-chamfered sides and gabled capping stones. Central gates with similar railings and flanking piers.  

The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.  

Listed as a mid-Victorian village chapel retaining good original character in a prominent road-side location. Group value with the hall and manse adjacent.