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
4256
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/10/1971
Date of Amendment
11/02/1998
Name of Property
Capel Ty Mawr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Botwnnog
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Bryncroes
Easting
222802
Northing
332241
Street Side
Location
Reached along a minor road which runs N of the B4413 some 4 km W of Sarn Meyllteyrn: sited next to the road in a small grassed enclosure, bounded by a low stone wall with ornate wrought-iron gate.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Calvinistic Methodist chapel of c1840. The gallery and gallery stair have been removed, otherwise the interior survives with original fittings.
Exterior
Long-wall facade chapel, built with adjoining chapel house in single line. Two-storeys. External render has incised lines simulating stone, slate roof. Centre pair of tall 20-pane sash windows with thin slate sills, flanked on either side by gabled entrance porches which have ledged double doors and rectangular overlights. First floor has 9-pane sash windows on either side, and chapel name 'TY MAWR' in raised letters in middle. Below this is a small incised slate tablet inscribed 'Pregetha'r Gair; / bydd daer. PAUL /Gwrandewch, / a bydd byw eich /enaid ESAY / 1799'. W elevation has two big 16-pane sashes in the middle with small 9-pane sashes above on either side. Chapel house to right, under same roof: C20 half-glazed door on ground-floor with 9-pane C20 plastic window in earlier opening above.
Interior
Large square interior, open to the roof. Line of the former gallery stair is traced into plaster of N wall. Pews in tiered rows, have panelled backs and shaped ends; double centre block and two side blocks with blocks either side of the Big Seat. Side walls close-boarded to dado level. Boarded ceiling, divided by moulded ribs into 12 patterned panels; 6 inset ventilators. Big Seat raised on square platform. Deacons' seat forms a square enclosure in front; moulded rectangular panels at base with moulded handrail and lobed finials to bench ends. A small panelled reading desk is coved out from the front of the deacons' seat; the recessed panels are partly chamferred with straight-cut stops, plain corners. Square pulpit, centre breaks forward on squat wooden columns, with quarter round columns at angles; flush panels to sides, top has dentil freize and is coved below moulded handrail.
Reason for designation
An unusually well-preserved early C19 chapel with good interior and many original fittings, which despite the removal of its gallery, still retains much of its original character. A good example of a long-wall entry type chapel with integral chapel house.
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