Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Pantdefaid
Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1993
- Locality
- Prengwyn
- Community
- Llandysul
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.07371, -4.29944
- Cadw reference
- 10625
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
Situated on crossroads at centre of Prengwyn.
History
1836 remodelled 1898.
Exterior
Unitarian chapel in painted stucco with hipped slate roof, near square plan with 3-window sides, 2-window end; facade with matching long outer windows, 2 shorter centre windows with date plaque between and broad doorway below. All windows are arched with 2-light timber tracery and roundels in heads. Stucco impost band, heads to side windows and full surrounds to facade windows. Upper windows break through band and have shoulders to surrounds. Door has pilastered surround with moulded arch. Double doors and crescent overlight with roundel. All detail of 1898.
Churchyard has fine collection of well-lettered slate headstones.
Interior
Interior: has 1898 fittings, pine pews, balustraded curved set fawr, pulpit with 2 panels of blank Gothic arcading, balustrade each side and to stairs flanking. End wall gallery on 2 florid iron columns, front with delicate pierced cast-iron panels. Behind pulpit, marble plaque in arched surround and 2 stained glass windows, one of St Paul made by John Hall and Sons of Bristol & London. Panelled boarded ceiling.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a late C19 chapel interior.
Nearby in the register
- Milestone to W of Crossroads at PrengwynTransportunder 1 mi
- Cwm MarchDomesticunder 1 mi
- Capel CarmelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding to N of Farmhouse at CoedyfoelAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.