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
9769
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/06/1964
Date of Amendment
16/02/1996
Name of Property
Former Capel Fronwen
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llanarth
Town
Locality
Llanarth
Easting
242562
Northing
257613
Street Side
Location
Situated some 200m E of village centre, on S side of road to Oakford.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
1857 former Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. The first chapel was built 1818, on land of Fronwen. Closed 1974 and used as workshop since.
Exterior
Rubble stone with grey stone dressings, bracketted eaves and slate roof. Broad gable front with two long arched windows, broad arched centre door and circular window over, level with side-window heads. Arched small date plaque: `Vron Wen Chapel by the Calvinistic Methodists 1857', in plain gable. Two window sides with similar long arched windows and two-window slate-hung rear. Windows have small panes with radiating bar heads, circular window has pretty tracery with coloured glass, the tracery echoed in broad fanlight over door. Three long arch-headed panels to doors.
Interior
All interior fittings removed. Plaster ceiling.
Reason for designation
A well-proportioned chapel in mid C19 Georgian style.
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