Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Dewi
Cyngor Bro Dyffryn Cennen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Chapel
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 5 February 1952
- Community
- Cyngor Bro Dyffryn Cennen
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.84269, -3.94786
- SAM number
- CM153
- Cadw record number
- 2145
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 1860 "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a small late medieval chapelry to Llandeilo Fawr parish. It lies within a large rectangular enclosure, which may or may not be contemporary and consists of the remains of two buildings orientated east to west. The larger is rectangular and measures c 10.5m by 6.5m with walls now up to 1m high of roughly dressed stone 0.6m thick. About 8m to the east of this the second building, also rectangular measures c 9.5m by 5m with stone walls 0.8m thick surviving to 0.4m high.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of the organisation and practice of medieval Christianity. The site forms an important element within the wider medieval landscape. The site is well preserved and retains considerable archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of evidence relating to chronology, layout, building techniques and functional detail.
The scheduled area comprises those remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Cwrt Bryn y BeirddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding on S side of yard at Cwrt Bryn y BeirddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding on E side of yard at Cwrt Bryn y BeirddAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Farm buildings on NE angle of yard at Cwrt Bryn y BeirddAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.