15583

 

II  

Designated  

01/02/1995  

01/02/1995  

St Catherine's Church  

 

Gwynedd  

Arthog  

 

Arthog  

264563  

314618  

NW  

Set back slightly from the road in a rubble-walled churchyard adjacent to Bont Arthog.  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

 

Early C19 chapel with later C19 and early C20 alterations. Richard Fenton, the traveller and antiquarian, described it in 1808 as `a new chapel of ease to Celynin.'  

Small, simple single-cell chapel of rubble with medium pitched slate roof. 3 large arched leaded windows to S side with simple tripartite wooden tracery with geometric tracery heads, that to the R with blocked entrance beneath. Similar window to E wall with 2 quatrefoils above 3 cusped lancets. Plain pedimented rubble bell-cote to W gable with arched head to opening. Simple single-storey gabled porch with simply-kneelered slate-coped parapets and stone cross at apex; arched entrance with stone seat and 2 boarded doors within, one to nave and one, off to N giving access to internal gallery. This is via an added gabled stair projection, slightly set back from and adjoining the porch to the N; Slit-window to ground floor with arched leaded lancet above. Above the porch on the W wall, a plain leaded oculus. Gabled late C19 vestry addition to N wall with depressed arched window containing 2-light wooden mullion with shaped, arched lights. Adjoining this to the L and set back slightly a wider gabled projection of snecked rubble; an early C20 boiler house; flat, buttress-like chimney against the N wall of the chapel.  

Simple 4-bay queen strut roof; plain tiled floor. Continuous nave and chancel; plain early C20 pews and simple wooden W gallery. C20 biblical texts painted in panels beneath wall plate. Earlier (C18) oak turned altar rails and arched panelled dado to chancel; tripartite wooden retable in simple Gothic style. Square panelled pulpit. Figurative stained glass to E window commemorating Thomas Taylor of Penmaenucha and Arthog, d. 1876. Early C20 wall tablets.  

Listed as a charming and unusual early C19 chapel in a prominent road-side position. Group value with Bont Arthog.