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
82534
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/02/2004
Date of Amendment
27/02/2004
Name of Property
Capel Moriah Fro
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Trawsfynydd
Town
Locality
Trawsfynydd
Easting
270730
Northing
335624
Street Side
W
Location
In a prominent location, within a railed enclosure, raised above the W side of Pen y Garreg Street in the centre of the village of Trawsfynydd.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Late C19 chapel. Built to replace an earlier chapel on the site, itself rebuilt in 1839, recorded on a reset slate tablet set into the wall of the chapel yard .
Exterior
Romanesque style chapel. Built of grey rock-faced snecked masonry with pale freestone dressings; slate roof with shallow stone parapet copings and fleur de lys finials. Gabled entrance elevation has stepped decoration and an advanced centre which has paired round headed arched doorways with flanking Romanesque columns; triple arched window at first floor level over a moulded corbelled course, articulated by columns with Romanesque capitals and a small Venetian window in the apex. In the flanking outer bays, there is a round-headed window over square-headed window; the side elevations have square-headed ground and first floor windows to each of 5 bays. All windows are modern replacements of the original margin paned lights. The rear elevation is rendered and has scattered modern fenestration.
Interior
Reason for designation
Ambitiously scaled C19 chapel on an important site in the village centre.
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