Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen-y-Garnedd Calvinistic Methodist Chapel
Pentraeth, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1968
- Locality
- Pen-y-Garnedd
- Community
- Pentraeth
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26650, -4.19625
- Cadw reference
- 5560
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 from the N side of the A5025 on the S approach to the village of Pentraeth.
History
Late C19 Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, built in 1876, dated by a slate plaque above the entrance which reads: CAPEL Y TREFNYDDION CALFINAIDD / PENGARNEDD / A / ADEILIADWYD / 1876.
Exterior
Gable entry Calvinist Methodist Chapel. Grit rendered elevations with smooth rendered dressings. Slate roof. The chapel is symmetrically planned, the central entrance under a fanlight with radial glazing bars, the head of the doorway is under a moulded arch on scrolled corbels and with stressed keystone. The tall flanking 14-pane windows have similar heads, with plain jambs and moulded sills on square corbels. Above the entrance is an inscribed arched slate plaque in a moulded surround, which bears the name and date of construction and also reads: GWILIA AR DY DROED DAN FYDDECHYN MYNED I DY DDIW A BYDD A BAROTTACH I WRANDO NAC I ROI A BERTH FFYLIAID. Set within the moulded gable pediment is a circular louvred ventilation grille with moulded surround. The angles of the entrance elevation have stressed, smooth rendered, quoins. The lateral walls have 4 tall unequal sash windows with smooth rendered architraves, round heads with stressed keystone detail; slate sills.
Interior
The main entrance opens into a tiled vestibule, side entrance doors into the chapel beyond. The chapel walls are rendered, with ashlar scoring and moulded coving. The ceiling has ornate floriate light bosses and a large ornate central ventilation grille with moulded surround. There are 3 ranks of raking pews. The set fawr and pulpit are at the entrance end, the set fawr rectangular in plan with side entrances; the facing panels are surmounted by shaped balusters, angled outwards under a moulded rail and with square newel posts at the angles surmounted by banded globe finials. The pulpit is of 3 bays, the central slightly advanced under a lectern on scrolled brackets; the moulded rail is over a cusped frieze above facing panels with moulded surrounds. The side entrance steps have squared chamfered newels with banded globe finials; the moulded rail on shaped balusters. To the rear of the pulpit is a round headed recess, a moulded arch with stressed keystone on engaged pilasters; flanking round headed lights illuminate the vestibule beyond.
Reason for designation
Included as a simple rural C19 Calvinist Methodist Chapel which retains many original features.
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