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
3470
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/01/1951
Date of Amendment
06/06/2001
Name of Property
Former Chapel at Penrhyn Old Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llandudno
Town
Llandudno
Locality
Penrhyn-Side
Easting
281625
Northing
381603
Street Side
N
Location
Set back about 100m N of road; to E of Penrhyn Old Hall.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Probably C16. Formerly the chapel to Penrhyn Old Hall; before the Reformation, the chapel here was described as "Libera Capella Beatae Maria de Penrhyn."
The Pughs of Penrhyn, who lived at Penrhyn Old Hall, made the locality a stronghold of the Roman Catholic religion in the times of its adversity in C16 and C17s and used their chapel to celebrate the Roman Catholic Mass. The chapel became a derelict farm building, but was restored to religious use in the early C20.
The building is again now roofless and covered by undergrowth.
Exterior
Walls of limestone rubble with red sandstone quoins. West end has rebuilt doorway with a two-centred arch, above which there is an inserted (C20?) trefoil-headed stone relief of the Crucifixion. Above this in turn there is a round window with a scroll moulding of probably C17 date. Two lancets to S and one to E are probably original; two windows on N side later insertions probably of early C20.
Interior
Reason for designation
Late medieval chapel. Group value with other listed buildings at Penrhyn Old Hall.
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