Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Ebenezer
Llangybi, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 24 February 1997
- Locality
- Llangybi
- Town
- Lampeter
- Community
- Llangybi
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.15991, -4.03297
- Cadw reference
- 18263
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 at E end of Llangybi village on S side of A 485.
History
Independent chapel of 1834, with gallery of c1860, repaired in 1890. Congregation grew from one formed in the late C17, first chapel here was of 1772.
Exterior
Unpainted render with slate roof and flat boarded eaves. Lateral facade of two arched windows with small-paned glazing and Gothick intersecting bars in head. Plaque between windows and plain outer doors, double 2-panel. 12-pane gallery light to each end wall.
Interior
C20 cladding to three-sided ceiling. Attractive three-sided gallery of c1860 with grained front panelled in vertical panels over a cornice with wide-spaced paired brackets. Three iron columns made by T. Bright of Carmarthen. 1890 pews, plain pulpit with canted front, plaster arch behind.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early C19 chapel retaining its character including the attractive mid C19 gallery.
Nearby in the register
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- Pont LlangybiTransportunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.