Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Church Hall
Pontarfynach, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 16 March 2005
- Locality
- Hafod
- Town
- Aberystwyth
- Community
- Pontarfynach
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.34982, -3.80611
- Cadw reference
- 84266
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the NW side of the B4574 just N of Upper Lodge and some 400m NE of Eglwys Newydd church.
History
Church hall of 1891 built for Mrs. Sarah Waddingham of Hafod. The Waddinghams had paid for the restoration of Eglwys Newydd church in 1887.
Exterior
Church hall, rubble stone with red brick dressings and red plain-tiled deep-eaved roof, hipped to W and gabled to E. Single storey with entrance at E end where a gablet projects from the roof hip on 2 turned posts, sheltering bell. One storey with tapered buttresses of squared stone set just in from angles, tiled sloping tops. Cambered-headed mullion-and-transom wooden windows with moulded transom, brick surrounds and slate sills. Front has double doors between two single lights with top lights. Side to road has three 3-light windows and plaque 'Fe adeiladwyd er gogoniant Duw gan Meistres Sarah Waddingham yn y flwyddyn 1891'. E end has wide 5-light window with cambered head and two rows of top lights. Roof overhangs at gable.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-detailed late C19 building in the free style that followed the Gothic Revival, associated with the Hafod estate.
Nearby in the register
- Entrance gates and piers to Eglwys Newydd churchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Hafod: Peiran CascadeGarden Buildingunder 1 mi
- Eglwys Newydd ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Enclosing rails and walls to Thomas Johnes grave in Eglwys Newydd churchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.