Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Soar
Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Lampeter, Ceredigion, designated on 11 March 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 11 March 1992
- Locality
- Lampeter
- Community
- Lampeter
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.11143, -4.07981
- Cadw reference
- 10433
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 195 Lampeter (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Prominently situated at W end of Victoria Terrace along SE side of The Common.
History
Independent chapel of 1874, altered 1895.
Exterior
Unpainted roughcast with stucco dressings and slate roof. Venetian Renaissance facade. Two-storey elevations with plain 4-window sides.
Front has slightly projecting pedimented centrepiece rising above flanking half-pediments, all over four giant
pilasters with entablature broken forward and terminated over inner pilasters to allow a depressed central arch. Block finials to apex and outer angles. Centre has blank roundel in pediment, spandrel panels over arch, keystone to arch and glazed roundel over pair of long arched windows at first floor. Arched and pedimented doorway below. Doorway has pilaster jambs, moulded arch, keystone and slate plaque in pediment, pair of windows above have sill-courses, pilaster jambs, moulded arches and keystones. Side bays have tall ground floor arched window with moulded shouldered architraves and keystones. Blank plaques over with rebated angles. These plaques, spandrels of centre arch, spandrels of doorcase, triangles in half-pediments and the apex roundel are all infilled in white quartz chippings.
Double doors with segmental head and crescent overlight. Pediment plaque records chapel built 1842 and
improved 1874 and 1895, though other sources indicate that it was rebuilt entirely in 1874.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a substantial chapel in a prominent position overlooking The Common and for its distinctive appearance with an unusual Venetian style of facade with raised pediment.
Nearby in the register
- Lloyds BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Black Lion Hotel, including service range to leftCommercialunder 1 mi
- The EmporiumCommercialunder 1 mi
- Tenovus/Pet ShopCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.