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
19626
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
01/04/1998  
Date of Amendment
01/04/1998  
Name of Property
Capel Nant  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Llanengan  
Town
Pwllheli  
Locality
Nanhoron  
Easting
228677  
Northing
331656  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated set back in lawned garden on N side of road from Nanhoron to Rhydyclafdy, 100m NE of junction with B4413.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Calvinistic Methodist chapel of 1877. A chapel is marked on the 1839 Tithe Map, on Nanhoron estate land.  

Exterior
Chapel, rubble stone with slate eaves roof on brackets, with thin bargeboards. Roof ridge has metal ventilator. Gable front in grey rubble with roughly squared dressings in the same stone. Composition is of a single large arch with squared quoins and voussoirs, and projecting keystone, enclosing three long arched openings and a centre keyed roundel with slate plaque 'Nant 1877'. The arched openings are two windows flanking a broader and slightly taller centre opening with a 2-light window immediately over double doors. Outer windows have 21-pane glazing, centre is divided into two arched-lights with roundel over by thin timber mullions, the two lights 15-pane. The doors are 6-panel. Raised plinth. Side walls have no brackets to eaves, 4-window range of long arched windows. Rear has two long arched windows without keystones, brackets to eaves.  

Interior
Plaster ceiling with ornate centre rose and moulded cornice. Timber end gallery panelled in long horizontal panels and dentil cornices. Plaster arch behind pulpit.  

Reason for designation
Included as a good example of later C19 chapel design with a strong gable front composition.  

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