Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Capel Fronwen
Llanarth, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanarth, Ceredigion, designated on 3 June 1964.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 3 June 1964
- Locality
- Llanarth
- Community
- Llanarth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.19421, -4.30481
- Cadw reference
- 9769
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 194 Llangranog (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 200m E of village centre, on S side of road to Oakford.
History
1857 former Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. The first chapel was built 1818, on land of Fronwen. Closed 1974 and used as workshop since.
Exterior
Rubble stone with grey stone dressings, bracketted eaves and slate roof. Broad gable front with two long arched windows, broad arched centre door and circular window over, level with side-window heads. Arched small date plaque: `Vron Wen Chapel by the Calvinistic Methodists 1857', in plain gable. Two window sides with similar long arched windows and two-window slate-hung rear. Windows have small panes with radiating bar heads, circular window has pretty tracery with coloured glass, the tracery echoed in broad fanlight over door. Three long arch-headed panels to doors.
Interior
All interior fittings removed. Plaster ceiling.
Reason for designation
A well-proportioned chapel in mid C19 Georgian style.
Nearby in the register
- PandyDomesticunder 1 mi
- TalybrynDomesticunder 1 mi
- North ParadeDomesticunder 1 mi
- GlennyddDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.