Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
18482
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/06/1997
Date of Amendment
10/06/1997
Name of Property
Capel Y Rhiw
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Tregaron
Town
Locality
Rhiwdywyll
Easting
269837
Northing
258922
Street Side
Location
Situated on S side of Abergwesyn road some 2 km E of Tregaron. Set above road on stone-faced terrace.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Calvinistic Methodist small chapel/schoolroom of 1866, a branch of Bwlchgwynt Chapel, Tregaron.
Exterior
Rubble stone with slate roof. Small scale, two arched-windows with stone voussoirs and heavy stone sills. Small-paned sashes with radiating-bar heads. Door to right with single-stone lintel and C20 door.
Interior
Simple plastered interior with cast-iron and timber combined pews and desks. Small plain pulpit.
Reason for designation
Listed as the best preserved of the small branch chapels in the region. Historically important as illustrating the spread of non-conformity during the mid to later C19 in sparsely populated upland districts.
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