Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Talsarn
Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 10 November 1998
- Locality
- Talsarn
- Town
- Llangadog
- Community
- Llanddeusant
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.91977, -3.77759
- Cadw reference
- 20822
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in Talsarn village on N side of road some 500m E of Cross Inn crossroads.
History
Calvinistic Methodist chapel of 1860, founded from Twynllanan chapel.
Exterior
Chapel, blue-painted stucco with slate close-eaved roof. Long-wall facade of six openings, 4 long narrow small-paned sash windows with pointed heads, the two centre windows close together with date plaque between, the two outer windows outside of the 2 doors. C20 doors in tall pointed-arched recesses, blank heads. W end has slate-hung gable and added roughcast outbuilding with outside steps to first floor board door and 12-pane sash. Ground floor boarded centre window, plank door and pre 1901 letterbox marked VR. E end wall has 16-pane sash with stone voussoirs to head. Rear wall has 2 long 12-pane windows.
Interior
Painted grained pews in three blocks, 6 rows raked steeply up to back wall, 2 rows each side of pulpit and great seat. Seat in front of pulpit and then larger enclosure behind. Pulpit with turned baluster angles, and similar turned angles to platform. Simple ceiling rose.
Reason for designation
Included as a chapel with a distinctive simple gothic front and an unaltered interior with raked box pews.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St Simon and St JudeReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bedw HirionDomestic1 mi
- Range of outbuildings at CwmsawddeAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- CwmsawddeDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.