Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Siloh Chapel, including Schoolroom to rear, and attached house (18 Gloddaeth Street)
Llandudno, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 16 March 1976
- Locality
- Llandudno
- Community
- Llandudno
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.32489, -3.83408
- Cadw reference
- 3371
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On corner with Gloddaeth Street.
History
Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, dated 1905.
Exterior
Chapel in Baroque style. Red sandstone and grey limestone; slate roof. Upper floor faced with blocks of limestone with sandstone ashlar dressings; rusticated ground floor, balustraded parapet, and cupolas faced with sandstone ashlar. Each end bay of North-east elevation projects forward and is ornamented with quoins on first floor and crowned by a domed cupola. Each first floor window with shouldered architrave with keystone and broken triangular pediment, and with segmental pediment above eaves level. Flat-arched window with keystone on ground floor. Centre bay also projects; Venetian-window on first floor with rusticated Doric columns and Ionic pilasters with broken-triangular pediment over, above eaves level; wide portico on ground floor with entablature and segmental pediment with "Siloh" in tympanum of pediment and with the following inscriptions in the frieze:"19 Addoldy y Methodistaid Calfinaidd 05". Each intermediate bay with a balustraded parapet and with a narrow window on both first and ground floors, first floor windows with rusticated pilasters and entablature and with balustrading to apron. South-east elevation of six bays with projecting bay at each end and, the North-easternmost bay continuing the articulation of the corner bays of the North-east elevation. South-easternmost bay with Venetian window on first floor with rusticated pilasters and with plain window on ground floor. The four intermediate bays have semi-circular headed windows on the first floor with moulded heads and with keystones extending up to the eaves cornice; plainer openings on ground floor. North-west side elevation similar to South-east elevation. To rear, single storey schoolroom block with hipped slate roof.
Also to rear, facing Gloddaeth Street, attached 2-storey, 3-window house; grey rock-faced stone, slate roof. On first floor, 3 paired Gothic windows with sash glazing. On ground floor, from L, square bay window with 2 sash windows, doorway with boarded door, splayed bay window with sash glazing, further doorway, and square bay window as at other end.
Interior
Inside the chapel there is a gallery on three sides supported by slender fluted iron columns; ceiling divided into rectangular panels with circular panels inset within them; wide arch over organ behind sedd fawr.
Reason for designation
Unusual Baroque chapel with elaborate well-preserved interior on key site .
Nearby in the register
- English Presbyterian ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 18 Chapel StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 17 Gloddaeth Street, including verandahCommercialunder 1 mi
- 19 Chapel StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.