Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Welsh Baptist Chapel, including forecourt gates, gate piers and railings
Conwy, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 8 October 1981
- Locality
- Walled town
- Town
- Conwy
- Community
- Conwy
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.28061, -3.82969
- Cadw reference
- 3276
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 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
Set back behind a railed forecourt on the N side of the W entrance to St Mary's churchyard.
History
The Baptist cause was mentioned by Samuel Lewis as active in Conwy by 1833. The present chapel is a rebuilding of 1875 (date on building). It closed in the 3rd quarter of the C20.
Exterior
Gable-fronted chapel with steeeply pitched roof and classical detail. Channelled rustication to impost level, otherwise of scribed roughcast; slate roof. The 3-bay gable-end front has a central projecting entrance under a coped gable. It has a stilted round arch with keystone, and double fielded-panel doors under an overlight. This and other windows were boarded up at the time of survey (2005). Recessed to the R and L under gables are round-headed windows with keystones, in the gables of which are 'AD 1875' in relief. The entrance gable breaks through the upper central window, comprising triple round-headed lights with pilasters, early Gothic capitals incorporating small heads, and outer consoles. The moulded round arches have keystones. Although the windows are boarded up, the heavy wooden frames remain exposed and have plate tracery heads with cross in the centre light and saltire cross in the outer lights. Above is an inscription panel 'Addoldy y Bedyddwyr', and a keyed oculus with louvres.
Side walls have 3 plain windows each. A rear lean-to vestry or school room projects beyond the line of the R side wall, where it has a doorway, boarded up. The rear gable of the main chapel has a small boarded opening.
The forecourt has a contemporary dwarf rubble-stone wall with dressed coping, and iron railings with alternate spear and steeple finials. Central monolithic dressed-stone piers have pyramid caps, and gates similar to the railings.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as one of the few surviving town-centre chapel buildings, well preserved but for its boarded-up windows, and of definite C19 character with retention of original detail.
Nearby in the register
- 5 Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty NewyddNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Gate piers, gates and railings at Church Street entrance to St Mary's churchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 4 Church StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.