Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tal-y-Bont Chapel including forecourt walls and railings
Llanycil, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 22 October 2001
- Locality
- Rhyd-Uchaf
- Town
- Bala
- Community
- Llanycil
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.92722, -3.63664
- Cadw reference
- 25816
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
On the corner of the road junction in the centre of the village.
History
Methodist chapel founded 1810 and rebuilt in its present form in 1870.
Exterior
Medium-sized Victorian village chapel in eclectic Romanesque style. Snecked, rough-dressed slatestone facing with quoins and dressings of pale grey limestone ashlar. Medium-pitched slate roof with coped and kneelered gable parapets; surmounting decorative iron finial to the front gable and a squat brick boiler chimney to the rear. The facade is symmetical and comprises a single-storey porch projection to the centre with windows to either side and above. The porch is in the form of a lean-to, with a gabled and advanced central section. This has a segmentally-arched entrance with moulded arch and boarded door; surmounting coped, kneelered gable with iron finial as before. Above the entrance, within the gable, is a stone plaque with the inscribed dates 1870 and 1937. Flanking the entrance are single bays with dentilated eaves and small rectangular windows to the front and returns; these are of plain 2-pane sash type, with marginal glazing. To either side of the porch projection are tall round-arched windows with labels having carved, foliated stops; 10-pane C20 glazing with plain segmental head. Above the porch is a large central window of plate tracery type; overall round arch with label as before and, within, 3 round-arched lights supporting a rose. The sides are of 4 bays with plain dividing buttresses. Large round-arched windows with 9-pane C20 glazing and projecting sills.
Enclosing a forecourt in front of the chapel's facade are the contemporary low forecourt walls. These have chamfered limestone copings with surmounting spear-headed railings; corner piers with stopped-chamfered sides and gabled capping stones. Central gates with similar railings and flanking piers.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a mid-Victorian village chapel retaining good original character in a prominent road-side location.
Group value with the hall and manse adjacent.
Nearby in the register
- Ty Capel and School Room at Tal-y-Bont ChapelDomesticunder 1 mi
- Carthouse and Pigsty at Coed-y-Foel IsafAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- Outhouse at Coed-y-Foel IsafAgriculture and Subsistence1 mi
- Coed-y-Foel Isaf including adjoining Agricultural RangeDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.