Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Tan-y-coed
Llanrug, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 27 August 1999
- Locality
- Tan-y-coed
- Community
- Llanrug
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14020, -4.18786
- Cadw reference
- 22244
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the east side of the road between Llanrug and Ceunant immediately to the north-east of the former Post Office; low rubblestone wall with stone-on-edge coping to roadside; square piers, spear-headed iron railings and gates to entrance.
History
Built 1901 as Calvinist Methodist Chapel with contemporary Sunday School/Vestry directly adjoining.
Exterior
Chapel. Classical, mildly Italianate style. Rendered rubblestone with plaster quoins and window and door dressings; slate roof with red ceramic ridge detailing. Gable end entrance to north-east of 1:1:1 bays, central steeply pedimented, outer with panelled parapets above broken cornice. Tall round-arched recess to centre with quoins to impost level, continued in moulded form with keystone above, contains round-headed entrance with panelled doors, plain fanlight and moulded Doric entablature above; over the entrance is a 2-light window with Doric pilasters and entablature and above again the raised lettering "TAN. Y. COED/ MC/ 1901". Outer bays have 12-paned margin light sashes in round-headed recesses with keystones and imposts, repeated in 5 bays to long roadside elevation. Single-storey link set back on south-west gable end connects chapel to adjoining Sunday School/Vestry.
Interior
Plain, dignified interior. Roof in 5 bays of hammerbeam type but having slender circular tie beams with baluster moulding; panelled outer sections and coved timber boarding to centre section, which has decorated circular ventilators with pendants. Rendered walls lined to resemble ashlar. Raking floor has numbered box pews; internal porch at entrance end has half-glazed doors with chamfered lower panels; Art Nouveau stained glass panel to centre. Set fawr, flanked by chamfered 4-panel doors with plain mid-C20 wall tablets above, has balustraded enclosure, reading desk and steps to pulpit set in round-arched recess with fluted Doric pilasters, floral spandrels and garlanded cornice frieze; slate floor in link to Vestry/Sunday School.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved early C20 chapel occupying a prominent roadside position and forming a good group with its adjoining Sunday School/Vestry and the former Post Office and attached late C19 terrace immediately to the south-west.
Nearby in the register
- Sunday School/Vestry at Capel Tan-y-coedReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former Post Office & Nos 1-3 Maes GerddiCommercialunder 1 mi
- Bryn Bras CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gladiator statue (north) at Bryn Bras CastleGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.