Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel M C Cefn Nannau
Llangwm, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llangwm, Conwy, designated on 1 April 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1998
- Locality
- Llangwm
- Community
- Llangwm
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.99757, -3.53869
- Cadw reference
- 19590
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 120 Corwen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
This prominent chapel is located on the SE side of its large graveyard, reached from the farm road to Cefn-nannau farm, on the road on the SW side of the Afon Ceirw valley.
History
A chapel for the Calvinistic Methodist community was originally built in 1801. The present building is a rebuild of 1896, and was opened on the 6th June, to serve the scattered community in the rural area of Llangwm.
Exterior
Pebbledashed rubble with painted stone and rendered flush dressings and a slate roof with red clayware ridges. Gable end entry, with, unusually, two symmetrically gabled porches with 4-panelled doors facing each other over a narrow passage leading up to the gable end window; paired lancets with a blind spandrel over, its architrave enlivened with key blocks. Stained glass in patterned leadwork. String course at eaves level above, and a mid-gable band interrupted by a single lancet. Eared architraved vent in the gable apex. The 3 windows each side have rendered, eared and shouldered architraves, and margin glazing of cast textured glass around the central panels of mauve glass. To the rear, a Sunday school room, with access through a side porch.
Interior
Flat ceiling of patterned boarding and two large central roof vents. Plastered walls and painted splayed window reveals. Moulded pointed arch behind the raised pine pulpit, which has a galleried top curving round to the central book stand. Enclosed set fawr. Brass oil lamp brackets either side of the arch. Raked and numbered pine pews seating a total of 152. The Sunday school/vestry at the rear has high dado boarding.
Reason for designation
Included as an unaltered late Victorian country chapel, with entrances unusually placed in paired porches.
Nearby in the register
- Pont-y-capelTransportunder 1 mi
- Pont Ty-gwynTransportunder 1 mi
- Church of St JeromeReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Four Chest Tombs at the Church of St JeromeReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.