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
3155
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/05/1951
Date of Amendment
03/11/1995
Name of Property
Horeb Capel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Penmaenmawr
Town
Penmaenmawr
Locality
Dwygyfylchi
Easting
273137
Northing
376883
Street Side
S
Location
Located in the centre of Dwygyfylchi, some 2km E of Penmaenmawr; on the street line
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Welsh Independent chapel, formerly dated 1813; substantially altered late C19.
Exterior
Rectangular, single-storey rubble-built chapel, roughcast with hipped slate roof. 3 large sash windows to each long side with marginal glazing and plain stucco architraves; stucco quoins. To the W a recessed entrance bay with hipped roof and stucco quoins and architraves as before; entrance facing N with 6-panel door. To the rear of this porch block, extruded between it and the chapel proper, a small boiler house addition with plain chimney. Decorative spear-headed iron gate in front of the entrance with rubble wall returned to the S along the side of the chapel.
Interior
All fittings are late C19. Grained pitch-pine box pews in inclined arrangement; pine panelled pulpit and balustrade. Large elaborate foliate plasterwork roundel to ribbed and boarded ceiling.
Reason for designation
Included for its historic interest as a C19 chapel in a prominent roadside location within the village.
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