Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Penuel Chapel
Llangors, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 21 August 1998
- Locality
- Llangors
- Community
- Llangors
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.93999, -3.26030
- Cadw reference
- 20304
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
In the centre of Llangors village opposite the church.
History
Built 1869 for the Baptist cause. No longer in use.
Exterior
A rectangular chapel of domestic scale and proportions. Of stone rubble, painted to sides, rendered to front with prominent rockfaced painted dressings; Welsh slate roof with large ridge ventilator and overhanging eaves with decorative bargeboards. Main frontage has tall two storey round arched sash windows with multipane glazing and raised quoins and voussoirs; between them a datestone and at ground floor a central round arched doorway with semi-circular overlight and panelled double doors. Similar smaller windows to sides and rear. Stands in a small enclosure with rubble walls, brick piers, iron railings and gates.
Interior
No accessible (August 1997).
Reason for designation
Included as an unaltered mid C19 domestic style chapel in a prominent village position.
Nearby in the register
- Group of 2 chest tombs in the churchyard to SW of church of St PaulinusCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Church of St PaulinusReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lewis monument in churchyard to SE of the church of St PaulinusCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Table tomb to Jane Watkeys in the churchyard to E of the church of St PaulinusCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.