Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hermon Congregational Chapel
Painscastle, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhosgoch, Painscastle, Powys, designated on 9 March 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 9 March 1995
- Locality
- Rhosgoch
- Community
- Painscastle
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.12111, -3.19065
- Cadw reference
- 15909
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 · 197 Hay (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Exterior
15909
Lies on north side of Newchurch to Painscastle road in Rhosgoch village.
1839. Painted rubble stone (iron sheeting at west end), slate roof with ridge cresting, gabled porch to south east corner, rear schoolroom under lean-to roof. Boarded porch door under fan light, blocked door to south west. Tall multi-pane windows under round heads, only the east window retains original glazing with fan head.
Interior: Originally a long wall chapel, refitted later C19, pulpit now on end wall. Two crown post trusses rising through boarded ceiling, match-boarded dado, double panelled doors to porch and schoolroom.
Low rubble forecourt wall enclosing burial ground with numerous headstones.
Included as an unusually attractice, small-scale chapel in a rural context.
Nearby in the register
- Rhosgoch MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Lane Farm Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- PortwayDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn Range at the Great HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.