Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Paran Chapel
Solva, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 4 February 1991
- Locality
- Paran
- Community
- Solva
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.89292, -5.14530
- Cadw reference
- 12473
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at southern end of small group of buildings at Paran, on western side of lane to Caerwen, some 100 m NW of junction with lane from Tremaenhir to Brawdy.
History
Dated 1841. Former Congregational Chapel (disused 1989) in squared rubble stone with slate roof.
Exterior
Small scale with steep N gable front. Two round-arched windows, with small-paned glazing, flanking centre round-arched doorway with intersecting glazing bars to fanlight and double doors. Arched plaque in gable marked 'Paran Chapel 1841, 1877’. Two-window side walls, cambered-headed 12-pane windows with stone voussoirs and keystones.
Condition: fair to poor.
Interior
Plain plastered interior, 3-sided ceiling, boarded to horizontal part, with centre rose. No fittings.
Nearby in the register
- Hendre CrossEducationunder 1 mi
- Tre-Maen Hir Standing StonesStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- TremaenhirDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ffynnonddewi (Brawdy)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.