Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Prion Chapel and Ty Capel including Forecourt Walls and Gates
Llanrhaeadr-Yng-Nghinmeirch, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 29 November 1999
- Locality
- Prion
- Town
- Denbigh
- Community
- Llanrhaeadr-Yng-Nghinmeirch
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14818, -3.41315
- Cadw reference
- 22703
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
Located in the centre of Prion, set back from the lane behind a walled and metalled forecourt on a slight rise, the chapel at right-angles to the road.
History
Non-conformist chapel, erected in 1792 and altered and extended in the mid C19. It incorporates an upper school-room at the road-facing end, and has a C19 manse attached at right-angles E.
Exterior
Large rectangular chapel with incorporated school-room and adjoining manse set back at right-angles to the E. Of rubble construction, currently pebble-dashed, the main chapel openings with stucco quoins; slate roofs, that to the chapel half-hipped to the road gable, with plain C20 bargeboards. The chapel section of the main, E-facing facade is symmetrical and has 2 pairs of tall windows to the centre with flanking entrances, all with round-arched heads. The windows have 12-pane recessed, fixed panes with marginal glazing and projecting stone sills; the entrances have recessed boarded doors with segmental 2-pane fanlights, also marginally glazed. Central arched dedication plaque with biblical inscription in Welsh and the date 1792.
To the R is an external flight of concreted steps, ascending from L to R with plain iron rail. This gives access to the first-floor school-room via a tall boarded door with 3-pane cambered overlight. Large 16-pane sash window with projecting sill and cambered head to the R, with broad boarded door to the ground floor below. Three recessed 12-pane sashes to the first floor gable end with heads and sills as before; small, squat brick end chimney. The rear has a segmentally-arched entrance with boarded door to the L and a plain rectangular modern window to its L. Two uPVC windows (replacing 12-pane sashes).
The 2-storey manse adjoins to the R; construction as before with plain near-centre chimney. C20 part-glazed door to the centre with modern wooden flanking windows, 9-pane to the L and 12-pane to the R, the latter formerly with cambered head. Original 12-pane casement windows to the first floor, breaking the eaves and contained within gabled dormers with simply-moulded bargeboards and boarded soffits. Outshut to the rear with modern windows. A modern garage block is extruded between the chapel and manse at the corner.
The rubble-walled, part-metalled forecourt has simple iron gates via 4 concrete steps; arched iron lamp stand over.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a second-quarter C19 rural chapel, with associated manse, retaining good original character.
Group value with other listed items Prion.
Nearby in the register
- Groes-Gwta FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Agricultural Range at Groes-GwtaAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cart and Stable Block at Groes-GwtaAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Icehouse at Llewesog HallNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.