Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Penuel Chapel
Pentyrch, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2000
- Locality
- Pentyrch
- Community
- Pentyrch
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.52702, -3.29717
- Cadw reference
- 22826
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
Just W of the village centre on higher ground, surrounded on 3 sides by graveyard.
History
Dated 1837. Former Baptist Chapel. Alterations to fabric suggest some remodelling perhaps from an original long wall facade. Converted to house late C20.
Exterior
Small chapel of limewashed rubble with brick dressings to windows, Welsh slate roof with boarded eaves. Side elevation faces road with 3 long narrow round-headed sash windows with narrow glazing bars, multipane margin glazing, stone sills, ventilator grilles beneath; 2 smaller round-headed blocked windows also visible. At gable end W is a gabled porch with double doors in side walls and round headed window in gable; to main building similar round-headed windows to sides and smaller central window over porch, plaque above (currently removed) and blocked oculus in apex. Similar elevation facing graveyard shows some blocked features. Small single storey Sunday School/vestry wing to rear has doorway with voussoirs.
Interior
Interior under conversion; plan of W end open to roof and inserted floor at gallery level retaining cast iron piers.
Reason for designation
Included as a simple early C19 chapel retaining a largely unaltered exterior with tall round-headed windows.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St CatwgReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lychgate at church of St CatwgReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The King's Arms Public HouseRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Horeb Presbyterian Church including attached hall to rightReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.