Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Chapel at Penrhyn Old Hall
Llandudno, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 10 January 1951
- Locality
- Penrhyn-Side
- Town
- Llandudno
- Community
- Llandudno
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.31808, -3.77846
- Cadw reference
- 3470
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
Set back about 100m N of road; to E of Penrhyn Old Hall.
History
Probably C16. Formerly the chapel to Penrhyn Old Hall; before the Reformation, the chapel here was described as "Libera Capella Beatae Maria de Penrhyn."
The Pughs of Penrhyn, who lived at Penrhyn Old Hall, made the locality a stronghold of the Roman Catholic religion in the times of its adversity in C16 and C17s and used their chapel to celebrate the Roman Catholic Mass. The chapel became a derelict farm building, but was restored to religious use in the early C20.
The building is again now roofless and covered by undergrowth.
Exterior
Walls of limestone rubble with red sandstone quoins. West end has rebuilt doorway with a two-centred arch, above which there is an inserted (C20?) trefoil-headed stone relief of the Crucifixion. Above this in turn there is a round window with a scroll moulding of probably C17 date. Two lancets to S and one to E are probably original; two windows on N side later insertions probably of early C20.
Reason for designation
Late medieval chapel. Group value with other listed buildings at Penrhyn Old Hall.
Nearby in the register
- Chapel at Penrhyn Old HallChapelunder 1 mi
- South Lodge to Penrhyn Old HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding range to NW of Penrhyn Hall FarmhouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Wing adjoining Penrhyn Old Hall to North EastDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.