Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Brynhenllan Chapel
Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 17 November 1994
- Locality
- Brynhenllan
- Community
- Dinas Cross
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.01866, -4.90287
- Cadw reference
- 14942
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
Situate in Brynhenllan village, at the top of the slope to Pwllgwaelod.
History
1842 Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, the third rebuilding of one founded in 1769.
Exterior
Unpained roughcast with stucco dressings and slate eaves roof. Tall lateral front with 2 long arched centre windows, small-paned with radiating bars to arch and marginal glazing bars. Two outer 6-panel doors with lattice-tracery overlights and 2, 2-pane gallery lights above. Centre roundel date plaque: ‘Trefnyddin Calfinaidd Adeiladwyd 1769, Yr ail waith 1799, Y drydedd 1842’. On E end is 1911 lean-to vestry. Twelve-pane gallery light to each end wall, and rear has 2, 16-pane gallery windows and 3, 12-pane sashes below.
Interior
Fine interior of 1842 with 5-sided gallery on marbled timber columns, the bases raised above pews. Painted grained box-pews raked back under gallery, passage in front and small cluster of pews in centre behind C20 great seat. Some pews also flanking pulpit. Later pulpit with turned balusters and steps up each side. Elongated timber pilasters and simple open pediment to pulpit back. Gallery has cornice and panelled front, vertical panels with broader square panels to centres of 3 faces opposite pulpit, centre one with clock marked ‘George, Fishguard’. Flat ceiling with plain roundel Outer doors lead to small enclosed lobbies with stairs up to galleries and 6-panel doors to chapel. In the roof space the gable ends have half-trusses and rough brickwork, possibly suggesting that the roof was originally hipped.
Reason for designation
Grade II* as a very fine interior of the first half of the C19, rare in S W Wales.
Nearby in the register
- Brynhenllan CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hafod LlwydDomesticunder 1 mi
- LlwynhendyDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cwm Dewi FachDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.