Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llyswen Presbyterian Church
Bronllys, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 15 December 1995
- Locality
- Llyswen
- Community
- Bronllys
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.03091, -3.26223
- Cadw reference
- 16695
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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
Located within its own linear churchyard, alongside the main Builth to Crickhowell Road, just beyond the S end of Llyswen village. The churchyard has a stone wall with a gate opening along the road frontage.
Exterior
History: Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, built c.1836 and renovated 1879. Transferred to the Presbyterian Church in 1904 and since served by Coleg Trefeca.
Exterior: Rendered stone with slate roof, quarter hipped at both ends. Single cell. Eastern side, facing road retains the traditional long-wall front formerly with doorways at either end. Now only the one entrance at the S end has double panelled doors with depressed ogee overlight. Two 4-paned windows, one quadrant pivot hung, and both with similar ogee shaped heads, the glazing bars forming a lozenge-shaped light. At N end, a low set window with similar head, the original door opening. Boxed eaves and moulded frieze. Shaped bargeboards. The N and W sides both have round-headed windows.
Interior: The internal plan was altered in the 1879 remodelling. Timber lobby around entrance doors. Walls plastered with a matchboarded dado. Moulded ribs form a panelled flat ceiling, having a central snowflake design. Raised pulpit under the N end window with a portable harmonium in front. Blocked fireplace on S wall. Three blocks of pews and some cross pews facing the pulpit.
Included as a conspicuous example of a small rural chapel, retaining the character of the pre-1840 building.
Nearby in the register
- Lower House FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Star HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St. GwendolineReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Griffin InnCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.