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
5435
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/02/1952
Date of Amendment
19/10/1998
Name of Property
Capel Quirt
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Rhosyr
Town
Locality
Rhosyr
Easting
245827
Northing
364928
Street Side
Location
Located at the NE side of a corner of a country road leading S off the A4080; c1.5km SE of Dwyran.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Quirt was once a grange of Aberconwy, and this part of the complex was the chapel. The plan of the original building has been much altered and obscured by later alterations but there are 2 datestones on the chapel walls (thought to have been interchanged in the early C20), one bearing the date and initials 1656 / W / TM, the other 1706 / W / TM. The RCAHM Inventory noted closely spaced, arch-braced roof trusses, probably C15, these have been removed and the segmental wood vaulted ceiling of the previous listing description replaced in the 1950s. A chancel floor was inserted in the C17.
Exterior
The chapel now forms part of a linear range; the 2-storey with attics farmhouse to the left (SW) and the cartshed/granary to the right (NE). The remains of the chapel have now been incorporated into the farmhouse accommodation, with kitchen on the ground floor (lean-to extension to rear) and bedroom above. Built of rubble masonry with a modern slate roof (lean-to with brick dressings). The front (SE) elevation has mixed and scattered fenestration; the ground floor has a small, small-paned window to the right (NE) and a larger, top-hung casement to the left (SW), the 1st floor has a 4-pane casement window in a raking half dormer to the left (NW) end. The rear (NW) elevation has small-paned ground floor sash windows, and a small 4-pane casement window in a raking half-dormer at the left (NE) end of the 1st floor; entry is through a modern doorway in the lean-to. There is a stone set into the NE gable apex (now in the granary), with date and initials 1706 / W / TM.
Interior
There is a stone set in the NE gable apex with date and initials 1656 / W / TM. Segmental wood vaulted ceiling mentioned in earlier description of chapel no longer survives.
Reason for designation
Included for its historic importance as the remains of a chapel, once part of a grange of Aberconwy.
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