Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Penybryn Baptist Chapel
Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Penybryn, Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire, designated on 15 April 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 15 April 1994
- Locality
- Penybryn
- Community
- Cilgerran
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.05448, -4.65899
- Cadw reference
- 14527
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 193 Cardigan (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Exterior
14527
Situated on NE corner of crossroads at Penybryn on A478.
Exterior: 1869 Baptist Chapel in banded Cilgerran stone with slate roof and fretted bargeboards. Gable front with lunette plaque 'Penybryn Baptist chapel built in the year 1818 Rebuilt 1869'. Three first-floor arched windows, two ground-floor windows and centre door all with cambered heads. Cut stone voussoirs, slate sills, sashes with marginal glazing bars and double 2-panel doors with overlight. Raised band between floors. Two-storey two-window sides, with similar windows. One arched rear window.
Interior: Box pews, three-sided gallery with long horizontal panels, fluted iron columns made by T Thomas of Cardigan. Pulpit possibly later, recess behind with cornice.
Front spearhead railings with dog-bars, pair of wrought iron gates with scrolls. End stone piers with pyramid caps.
An attractive C19 chapel with unusual banded stonework. Similar to Ty-Rhos Chapel, Rhos Hill.
Nearby in the register
- Castell NantperchellanEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Penralltddu Defended EnclosurePromontory Fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint DavidReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Outbuildings on E side of Farm Court at PenralltdduAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.