Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Front wall, railings and gates to Capel Y Tabernacl
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cwmgors, Ammanford, Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 29 March 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 29 March 2000
- Locality
- Cwmgors
- Town
- Ammanford
- Community
- Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.78099, -3.87957
- Cadw reference
- 23090
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 230 Ammanford (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 230 Ammanford (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on the N side of Cwmgors some 100m S of the junction of Heol-y-gors and Llwyn Road.
History
Roadside low wall, railings and gates to chapel of 1910-12 by W Beddoe Rees.
Exterior
Front wall and railings, rock-faced rubble stone with sandstone ashlar coping and short iron railings. The railings are in 3 sections stepped up from left to right, each section with 2 panels of wrought-iron scrollwork. At either end are rock-faced stone piers with moulded caps framing double iron gates with scroll-work in upper halves, over closely set lower rails.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with a fine early C20 chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Capel Y TabernaclReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Bancbryn cairn cemetery [east]Round Cairnunder 1 mi
- Bancbryn platform cairnPlatform Cairn1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.