Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen-yr-heol Chapel
Gwernyfed, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 15 December 1995
- Locality
- Tregoyd
- Community
- Gwernyfed
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.01581, -3.15406
- Cadw reference
- 17069
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the elevated plateau, below the Black Mountain peak Twmpa, within its well-furnished graveyard.
History
A baptist chapel of the early C19, daughter of Treble Hill.
Exterior
Colourwashed stone with a half-hipped slate roof. A single cell with an added boiler house extension at right angles with a large terminal stack, the addition with a stone slate roof. Two bays. C20 blockwork porch added at the NW front end with asbestos slates, re-using double planked doors and 'Y'-tracery pointed windows. The original inner entrance consists of a pair of 3-panel doors. At the sides, 2 pointed headed timber windows with stone voussoirs.
A stone inscription panel on the SW side reads: The Memoir of/TWO HUNDRED AND /FORTY POUNDS of The/Pious Donation of /Thomas Williams/of the Island GENT/in the Parish of/ Llanigon and County/ of Brecon, band/for the Use and Benefit/of this Penyrheol/Church for ever. // Ll.....ve 1 ft.
Interior
Very simple plastered interior. The roof has open timber trusses dividing 2 central full bays and quarter-bays at the ends. Pulpit a part-octagon set against the E window, which has been partially covered.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well preserved upland chapel in a fine setting, and amidst many early-mid C19 gravestones of interest.
Nearby in the register
- Cefn FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Windsor Castle Cottage (Ty twyn)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Middle Maestorglwydd HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Upper Maestorglwydd FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.