Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
9810
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/06/1964
Date of Amendment
18/10/1996
Name of Property
Capel Troedyrhiw (Independent)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llanfihangel Ystrad
Town
Lampeter
Locality
Cribyn
Easting
249993
Northing
252176
Street Side
Location
Situated on W side of Cribyn-Caledrhydiau by-road, some 2.5km NW of Cribyn.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built 1861. Cause began c.1805. First chapel built 1808. First minister was Jonathon Jones of Rhydybont Chapel, Llanybydder.
Exterior
Rubble construction. Slate roof. Bracketted eaves and barges. Four-bay lateral facade. Two tall central round-arched 18/12 sash windows. Dressed stone voussoirs and slate sills. Two outer round-arched doorways, dressed stone voussoirs. Doors with two long raised and fielded panels. Elongated overlights with rectangular 4-light portion below radiating 5-light fan. Tablet between the window heads inscribed: " Troedyrhiw. Addold'yr Annibynwyr yr hwn a adeiladwyd yn y flwyddyn 1861". Rubble right end. Rendered left end. Roughcast rear with two tall 24-pane hornless sashes, slate sills and cambered heads.
Interior
Original box-type pews in three ranks, steeply raked on a single gradient. Grained finish and panelled backs. Big Seat with high panelled enclosure and angled corners. Later simple pine pulpit. Ceiling coved on long sides, the junction between wall and ceiling with decoratively scalloped timber coving: turned corner pendants.
Reason for designation
Listed for its architectural interest as a handsomely designed later C19 rural chapel retaining most of its original fittings.
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