Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Cae Craig
Llangernyw, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llangernyw, Abergele, Conwy, designated on 17 March 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 17 March 1999
- Locality
- Llangernyw
- Town
- Abergele
- Community
- Llangernyw
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.15722, -3.66111
- Cadw reference
- 21493
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The chapel stands on an elevated site, gable end to the N side of the minor road linking the B5384 with the road between Gwytherin and Llangernyw, approximately 3km ESE of Pandy Tudur.
History
According to the religious census (1851) the Calvinistic Methodist chapel at Caer (sic) Craig was 'erected about 1843'.
Exterior
Simple domestic scale Vernacular chapel, rectangular on plan with later porch. Built of local stone rubble with distinctive slate hanging on S and W elevation; roughcast render on N and E elevations and porch. Welsh slate gabled roof with clayware ridge and slate verges. W elevation has pair of 9/9 sash windows with majority of handmade glass panes. Symmetrical E elevation has central gabled porch with slate roof and moulded and scalloped bargeboards with carved apex finial; 4-pane window in gable and boarded door on S side. Porch flanked by two 9/9 sash windows. Small forecourt to S of porch enclosed by low rendered wall with oversailing coping and wrought iron gate with fleur de lis spearheads.
Interior
Plain plastered interior with pine boarded dado, pews and pulpit.
Reason for designation
Included as an example of a small, relatively intact, isolated rural nonconformist chapel of the earlier C19.
Nearby in the register
- Cae CoedAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pont-y-Garreg NewyddTransportunder 1 mi
- Rhos y Domen Round BarrowsRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- HendreAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.