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
9868
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/01/1964
Date of Amendment
16/03/2005
Name of Property
Capel Trisant
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Pontarfynach
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Capel Trisant
Easting
271699
Northing
275755
Street Side
Location
At the E end of the hamlet of Capel Trisant approximately 0.5km NW of Llyn Frongoch.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Calvinistic Methodist chapel dated 1850, the combination of outer doors and paired arched centre windows shows the tradition of lateral-fronted chapels remaining where the chapel is gable-fronted. Large near square interior with painted grained raked pews and no gallery, typical of N. Ceredigion.
Exterior
Chapel, unpainted rendered walls with slated roof and bracketed eaves. Large gable front with brackets to verge, two large arched centre windows with 20-pane glazing below Gothic intersecting bars in arched heads. Two plain square-headed outer doorways with board doors. Slate arch-headed plaque in gable rearing 'Capel Tri Saint a adeiladwyd yn y flwyddyn 1820 a ail adeiladwyd yn y flwyddyn 1850'. Right side wall has two square-headed 24-pane sashes. Rear wall has two similar sashes and overhanging verges to gable. Left side wall has one similar window behind attached range.
To left of chapel is rendered low house or vestry range with slate roof and stone stack on ridge to left. Two storeys with board door to right, 12-pane sash to left and small casement pair to first floor left under eaves. Rear has casement pair over small 12-pane sash.
Interior
Interior without galleries. Painted grained raked box pews in three rows. Inward facing pair of pews each side and then single pew before corner panelled timber lobbies each with one pew attached facing in to pulpit. Pulpit removed (2004). Flat ceiling with plaster rose.
Reason for designation
Included as a mid C19 chapel in the simple late Georgian manner, with attached vestry and later chapel house.
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
Export