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
15364
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/12/1994
Date of Amendment
18/10/2005
Name of Property
Capel y Traeth
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Criccieth
Town
Locality
Criccieth
Easting
250086
Northing
338080
Street Side
N
Location
Close to the upper end of Penpaled Road, near the level crossing.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The chapel was founded in 1889 by a group leaving Capel Mawr. This Welsh Calvinistic Methodist congregation worshipped in the English Methodist Chapel for a time, but built their own chapel in 1895.
Exterior
Smooth rendered main facade with rough-case rendered and terracotta dressings, and roughcast render to return elevations. Slate roof with red tiled cresting. Galleried plan expressed as 2 storeys externally; entrance in gable end facing the street, the only elevation to receive decorative treatment. 2 storeys, 6 bays (1-4-1), the outer bays slightly advanced with stressed angle quoins and balustraded parapets. Narrow round-arched window with moulded plaster heads at each level. A row of 3 advanced gables in the central range form the porch and entrance lobbies: wider central gable is carried over open porch on a cast iron column. Symmetrical outer gables to inner lobbies have roughcast angle quoins and paired round arched windows. The gables are pedimented by heavy mouldings, with moulded terracotta panels filling the apexes. Above them, a row of 4 round arched windows with margin light glazing, linked by a continuous impost band. Steep pedimented gable over central range, with terracotta panelling filling the apex. Terracotta balustrading to parapet which surmounts the outer bays. Simple round arched windows in return elevations to either side.
Interior
Horseshoe gallery linked to organ loft to NE, carried on cast iron columns and making decorative use of wood graining and incised panels. Box pews, their lines curved around the pulpit towards the NE. Two aisles. Set fawr and pulpit also highly decorated, including fretted panels to set fawr, and low relief lilies in urns on pulpit. Coving to enriched plaster ceiling, the highly enriched central rosettes contained in a panel of fretted woodwork which is surrounded by simpler plaster panels and rosettes. The walls retain the original lined-out plaster finish.
Reason for designation
Listed for a striking and unusual design, flamboyant in its interpretation of Classicism and in its use of materials, and retaining a fine interior.
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