Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Little Chapel
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 21 July 1961
- Community
- Aberystwyth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.41443, -4.08747
- Cadw reference
- 10322
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the corner with Castle Street; to rear of No 6 Laura Place.
History
After 1834. Formerly the Nanteos estate office before it moved to No 11 Laura Place, then a Quaker Meeting House when the building was given its chapel front. It subsequently became Galloways bookshop before that moved to Pier Street and then in 1906 was converted into a Unitarian chapel. Ceased to be a chapel in 1976 and converted to museum use.
Exterior
Edwardian classical pedimented scribed stucco front with end pilaster strips and plinth; corrugated roof. Central tall sash window with lugged architrave flanked by panelled door entrances with cornices below circular windows. Whitewashed rubble right side in Castle Street with voussoirs to blocked segmental openings, the evidence of which has led to suggestions that it was originally built as a coach house to No 6 Laura Place but it is not shown on the 1834 map.
Reason for designation
Group value
Nearby in the register
- 13 New StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Laura PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Laura PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 20 New StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.