Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Soar
Llanddoged and Maenan, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 17 February 1997
- Locality
- Llanddoged
- Community
- Llanddoged and Maenan
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.15598, -3.78456
- Cadw reference
- 18234
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 an elevated site at the southern edge of Llanddoged village, some 50m SE of the Llanddoged school; set back within a railed forecourt with rubble revettment walls to the sides.
Exterior
Simple rectangular chapel, built in 1863; of snecked, rough-dressed rubble under a medium-pitched slate roof. Symmetrical front with plain gable and bargeboards. Arched outer entrances with panelled double doors and segmental fans with marginal glazing. Twin tall, central windows with multi-pane sashes including marginal glazing; above, a stone dedication plaque inscribed: 'Soar Addoldy Y Bedyddwyr 1863'. 3-bay sides with tall, recessed 18-pane sash windows with projecting slate cills; scribed, rendered S side, rubble N side. The SW gable is plain and pebbledashed.
Interior
Plain interior with pine box pews raked towards the rear; pulpit at entrance end with internal boarded porches. Plain plaster cornice with central ceiling rose.
Reason for designation
An unusually good example of an unaltered mid Victorian village chapel in a commanding position.
Nearby in the register
- T'yn LlanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St DdogedReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former Stable and Cartshed facing road at Old Rectory.Agriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Former Byre at right-angles to road at Old Rectory.Agriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.