Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sunday School/vestry to Bethel Chapel, including railings and gates
Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Penygroes, Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, designated on 21 July 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 21 July 2000
- Locality
- Penygroes
- Community
- Llanllyfni
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.05624, -4.28405
- Cadw reference
- 23706
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 118 Nevin (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Prominently sited on slightly rising ground, into which it is set, its chapel on the other side of the road, the Sunday School is located towards the northern end of Penygroes.
History
Built in 1899 as the Sunday School/vestry to the adjoining Methodist Chapel, which was itself rebuilt between 1899 and 1902.
Exterior
Sunday School/vestry set in a low rubble-walled enclosure with spear-headed iron railings and gates; ramped entrance with walls and brick paviors. Building has long rectangular plan in simple Italianate style of one storey over basement with cement-rendered walls and slate roof. Entrance front, with rusticated quoins above high plinth and string course doubling as cill band of windows, has slightly projecting centre section with steep pediment breaking through cornice. This contains a pair of panelled doors under a plain rectangular overlight within a surround of coupled plain pilasters supporting a plain entablature, above which is a 2-light blind panel with 3 pilasters and a plain entablature. 8-light rectangular widows to either side in plain pilastered surrounds. 6-bay returns, that to street with tall 28-paned glazing bar sashes, the top row of lights also top-opening, above string course, except to second bay from left which has a 4-panel door in a recessed opening cutting the string; below the string to the right where the ground drops are 4 iron-barred sash windows lighting basement.
Interior
Entrance lobby has coloured glass. Glazed screen at far end can fold back to create a single large space; kitchen and vestry beyond, the latter with an early C20 chimneypiece.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-detailed building in its own right, the Sunday School/vestry forms a striking group with the adjoining Bethel Chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Bethel Chapel, railed enclosure and gatesReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Hen-dyDomesticunder 1 mi
- Muriau & Muriau StoresCommercialunder 1 mi
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.