Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Methodist Chapel and graveyard walls with attached former Minister's Cottage
Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1995
- Locality
- Cutiau
- Community
- Barmouth
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.73719, -4.02582
- Cadw reference
- 15489
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
At the end of a steep and narrow lane leading off to the NE of Pont Glandwr, off the main road; on a raised rubble terrace forming a walled graveyard with stone-stepped access from the S, and sited against a steep, wooded slope.
History
Early C19.
Exterior
A small, 2-bay rubble-built early C19 Methodist chapel with slate roof; plain eaves and later bargeboards. 2 large 12-pane, near-flush original windows to E side; projecting slate cills. Further, 8-pane window to S end to L of a late C19/early C20 single-storey gabled porch. Of snecked dressed stone with entrance to E face and 4-pane window to W; recessed boarded door.
Attached to the E side, set back and stepped down, a low 2-storey minister's cottage. Rubble with corrugated iron roof and end chimney to N gable; weather coursing. External first-floor access to the L vialong flight of cemented steps; rubble parapet. Contemporary boardeddoor and wooden doorcase with modern plain-glazed window to R. Below,a further, recessed boarded door with a small contemporarywooden-shuttered window to the L.
Reason for designation
A particularly good example of a small early C19 non-conformist chapelwith attached minister's accommodation.
Nearby in the register
- Adjacent Former Wash HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- BodowenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llwyn Onn Isaf FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Cowhouse and hay-barn at GlandwrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.