Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Brynmair
Aberporth, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 20 June 1995
- Locality
- Aberporth
- Community
- Aberporth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.12280, -4.53243
- Cadw reference
- 16077
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
Situated approximately 1.6 km SE of Aberporth Bay on a minor road 500m S of B4333, Aberporth to Beulah road.
History
Independent chapel built 1833 and remodelled 1896-97.
Exterior
Whitewashed stucco with hipped slate roof and apex ventilator. Square plan. Round arched windows and cambered headed doors, all details 1896-97. Doors ledged with overlights, pilasters and moulded arches. Two long windows to centre and two shorter similar over door, with 2-light timber tracery, plain stucco surrounds and bracketed sills. Centre date plaque in similar surround. Plain 2-storey two window left side and rear.
Interior
Attractive 1896-97 interior with 3-sided gallery on five iron columns marked T. Jones and Sons, Carmarthen. Gallery front is curved at corners and has long panels of ornate pierced cast-iron. Simple cornices above and below. Pulpit at entry end with baluster steps each side, two Gothic arched panels to front and baluster panels each side. Plaster arch to wall behind with ornate brackets. Porches inset each side of pulpit under galleries. Timber boarded ceiling in panels, coved edge and cornice.
Reason for designation
An early C19 chapel with attractive late C19 interior.
Nearby in the register
- Blaenporth Mound and Bailey CastleMotte and Baileyunder 1 mi
- Rhyd IsafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St CynwylReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Three Monuments at SW Corner of Churchyard of Church of St CynwylReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.