Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Mount Zion Primitive Methodist Chapel and Graveyard
Llangollen Rural, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 11 June 1998
- Locality
- Froncysyllte
- Town
- Llangollen
- Community
- Llangollen Rural
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.96328, -3.08809
- Cadw reference
- 19960
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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
Situated next to school and stands within small graveyard on hill south of A5 road.
History
Small nonconformist chapel erected c1858 on land which had been acquired by the trustees of the proposed chapel in the same year. Subsequent to building a new Primitive Methodist chapel in 1914 on the main road (opposite St David's Church) Mount Zion was used as an additional classroom for the adjoining school (built 1863). Chapel is now used as school refectory.
Exterior
Roughly squared limestone walls with sandstone door and window surrounds, slate roof with terra-cotta ridge cresting. Single storey gable front with central stone porch with round-headed doorway and blocked fanlight, tall round-headed windows with key-blocked arches on either side and small name plaque above porch, now very eroded with only the word 'Chapel' and 'M...' discernible. Modern, plain wood door. Side elevations each with two tall square-headed 24-pane sash windows. Mid-ridge, slate-covered vent.
Interior
Wood panelled dado. Coloured glass marginal panes to front windows. Flat ceiling with embossed decorative pattern, narrow coving and central vent outlet.
Reason for designation
Listed as the earliest surviving chapel in the locality and a good example of traditional nonconformist architecture.
Nearby in the register
- Argoed HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stables at Argoed HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- War MemorialReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lime KilnsIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.