Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pensarn former Calvanistic Methodist Chapel
Llandysiliogogo, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 2 February 1996
- Locality
- Caerwedros
- Community
- Llandysiliogogo
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.16776, -4.36859
- Cadw reference
- 16615
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 on W side of by-road which leads from Pont Ffynnondewi (A487) to Caerwedros: 1.5 km S of the latter. Large cemetery to S beyond forecourt.
History
Built 1833, replacing a chapel of 1795. The cause began c1744 at Coedybrain. Forty members in 1902. Now closed: fittings removed.
Exterior
Rubble walls (formerly plastered). Slate roof, projecting eaves and bargeboards. Lateral 4-bay front with two long round arched windows to centre having 9/6-pane sashes: radiating upper glazing. Smaller upper window to each outer bay with similar glazing. Slate sills: stone voussoirs. Matching outer doors to front with paired 2-panel doors: 6-pane fanlights with radiating glazing bars, stone voussoirs. Slate plaque to upper centre inscribed: "Pensarn. A Adeiladwyd yn y Flwyddyn 1795. Aca adeiladwyd yn y Flwyddyn 1833". Slate memorial attached to front under right-hand long window to David Davies of Pen'ralltgoch (1765-1845), who was the first Deacon at Pensarn.
Right (roadside) gable end with 12-pane hornless sash window to each storey: cambered stone voussoired heads. Similar window to first floor of left end. Rear with two similar windows to each storey. Slate sills.
Small front courtyard with rubble wall alongside road having paired late C19 cast iron gates with scrolled finials and curved bracing: square dressed stone piers.
Interior
Fittings dismantled. Flat plaster ceiling with two small plaster roundels.
Reason for designation
Listed as an attractively designed late Georgian former wayside Chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Melyn Synod, Synod MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Castell Caer WedrosMotteunder 1 mi
- Milestone near GellieTransport1 mi
- Milepost on A486Transport1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.