Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Caerau Independent Chapel
Pencaer, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhosycaerau, St Nicholas/Tremarchog, Pencaer, Pembrokeshire, designated on 14 July 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 14 July 1993
- Locality
- Rhosycaerau
- Town
- St Nicholas/Tremarchog
- Community
- Pencaer
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.99802, -5.03274
- Cadw reference
- 12988
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)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 209 St David's (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in isolated hamlet some 3.5 km NE of St Nicholas.
Exterior
1826 Independent chapel with rendered end facade and broad grouted slate half-hipped roof. Facade has two 16-pane upper windows, two doors below with overlights, C20 doors. Between is attached pedimented slate plaque to WilliamáJones (d 1833) to rear of iron railed enclosure. Centre blank roundel and plaque: 'Y Ty Hwn 1724, 1770, 1804 rebuilt 1826'. Two-window two-storey sides of 12-pane sashes, two long arched rear windows. Rubble stone rear and N side walls.
Interior
Three-sided gallery on 3 x 4 iron columns with raised bases. Plain panelled gallery front. Later pulpit with curving stairs each side. Box pews.
Reason for designation
A good surviving chapel of late Georgian date.
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding Opposite Caerau ChapelDomesticunder 1 mi
- Range of attached Farm Buildings at PenysgwarneAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Range of attached Farm buildings at PenysgwarneAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- PenysgwarneDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.