Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Chapel at Garthewin
Llanfair Talhaiarn, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1968
- Locality
- Garthewin
- Community
- Llanfair Talhaiarn
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22006, -3.62687
- Cadw reference
- 184
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Located 30m to the W of Garthewin, accessed via a flight of parapeted rubble steps.
History
Formerly the estate carpenter's workshop, and perhaps contemporary with the early C18 rebuilding of Garthewin under Dr Robert Wynne, Chancellor of St Asaph and Vicar of Gresford. The building was converted to a Roman Catholic chapel in 1932 by Robert Wynne Esq, to his own designs.
Exterior
Small rectangular chapel. Of rubble construction with slated roof and slab-coped gable parapets with shaped stone kneelers; at the W end is a flush shallow-gabled bellcote with a round-arched bell opening. Tall, round-arched entrance with thin slatestone voussoirs; deeply-recessed 6-panel double doors with segmental tympanum above containing a Della Robbia Annunciation group of polychromed terracotta. Three rectangular round-headed leaded windows to each side. A small irregularly-flagged terrace lies in front of the W gable.
Interior
Plain plastered interior with simple clustered roof trusses.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with other listed items at Garthewin.
Nearby in the register
- GarthewinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Terrace Walls, Steps and Gazebo at GarthewinGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Garthewin CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- C-shaped Agricultural Complex at GarthewinDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.