Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cemetery Chapel (SE)
Brecon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 4 November 2005
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.95259, -3.40173
- Cadw reference
- 85778
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
In the cemetery about 1km to NW of town centre. This chapel to SE of circular turning area in cemetery.
History
1858, by H J Powell, of Cardiff, architect.
Exterior
One of a mirrored pair of chapels facing each other across a circular space. Decorated Gothic style, grey stone with bands of red-brown stone, and pale ashlar dressings; slate roof with single surviving band of purple slates. Towards road, NE gabled end with belcote, and 3-light window with Decorated style tracery. Facing circular space, to R, gabled porch, and to its L, two gabled single light windows. South gable end has two windows. Elevation facing SE has porch with narrow doorway flanked by small narrow lancets, and to its L, two gabled single light windows.
Reason for designation
Early example of C19 Gothic cemetery chapel, well-designed and preserved. The two chapels, the lodge and the gatepiers at the cemetery form a good group of C19 cemetery buildings with mutual Group Value.
Nearby in the register
- Cemetery Chapel (NW)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers and Gates at CemeteryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former Cemetery LodgeReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Court HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.