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
3757
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/05/1968
Date of Amendment
29/01/1999
Name of Property
Private Chapel at Plas-y-nant
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Betws Garmon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Coed Plas-y-nant
Easting
255055
Northing
356245
Street Side
N
Location
Set within the grounds of Plas-y-nant above the A 4085 with dense mainly coniferous planting nearby.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Late C17 or early C18 barn and cowhouse converted into a private chapel by the gentrifying owners of Plas-y-nant in the late C19.
Exterior
Barn, converted into private chapel. Roughly coursed rubblestone with ashlar door and window dressings; slate roof with small round-arched bellcote to south-west gable end. Rectangular plan built into the side of a slope, apparently allowing space for a cowhouse beneath the original barn. Long (north-west) wall has 2 square-headed leaded windows with 4-centred arches and hollow spandrels; small gabled ventilator below ridge. Entrance in north-east gable end through plank door with fleur-de-lys strap hinges; window above. Round-arched window opening to south-west gable end has C20 window.
Interior
Original barn roof of 4 bays with 3 pegged A-frame trusses and triple purlins, sawn off at tie beam level, of which only the stubs survive. The roof is now boarded above the rafters; suspended timber floor across the former cowhouse. C19 stained glass in windows to north-west wall.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial late C17 or early C18 barn and cowhouse given added historic interest by its conversion into a private chapel in the late C19.
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