Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Moriah Fro
Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, designated on 27 February 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 27 February 2004
- Locality
- Trawsfynydd
- Community
- Trawsfynydd
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.90246, -3.92339
- Cadw reference
- 82534
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 135 Harlech (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In a prominent location, within a railed enclosure, raised above the W side of Pen y Garreg Street in the centre of the village of Trawsfynydd.
History
Late C19 chapel. Built to replace an earlier chapel on the site, itself rebuilt in 1839, recorded on a reset slate tablet set into the wall of the chapel yard .
Exterior
Romanesque style chapel. Built of grey rock-faced snecked masonry with pale freestone dressings; slate roof with shallow stone parapet copings and fleur de lys finials. Gabled entrance elevation has stepped decoration and an advanced centre which has paired round headed arched doorways with flanking Romanesque columns; triple arched window at first floor level over a moulded corbelled course, articulated by columns with Romanesque capitals and a small Venetian window in the apex. In the flanking outer bays, there is a round-headed window over square-headed window; the side elevations have square-headed ground and first floor windows to each of 5 bays. All windows are modern replacements of the original margin paned lights. The rear elevation is rendered and has scattered modern fenestration.
Reason for designation
Ambitiously scaled C19 chapel on an important site in the village centre.
Nearby in the register
- Statue of Hedd WynCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Church of St MadrynReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- White Lion InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Pont TrawsfynyddTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.