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Latitude: 52.8229 / 52°49'22"N
Longitude: -4.6189 / 4°37'8"W
OS Eastings: 223631
OS Northings: 328252
OS Grid: SH236282
Mapcode National: GBR 52.V6F8
Mapcode Global: WH44T.09SR
Plus Code: 9C4QR9FJ+4C
Entry Name: Yr Hen Gapel at Plas yn Rhiw
Listing Date: 19 October 1971
Last Amended: 26 June 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 4245
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300004245
Location: Situated on W side of lane from Plas-yn-Rhiw to Rhiw church, just N of the cartshed and entrance to the Plas.
County: Gwynedd
Town: Pwllheli
Community: Aberdaron
Community: Aberdaron
Locality: Rhiw Plas
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Ruined outbuilding of uncertain date and purpose. It was known as the Hen Gapel before the Misses Keating bought the Plas in the mid C20, but Miss Keating's surmise that it might have been a recusant chapel of the C17 is unsupported. However the only other theory is that it was an outbuilding used briefly as a chapel or Sunday School in the early C19. The massive masonry and gabled rear windows suggest a pre C19 date. Linked by a wall, that was part of a roofed building, to the cart-shed to S.
Outbuilding, rubble stone, roofless and missing N end wall. E front has tall centre door with steps within and the jambs of what seem to be three upper windows of different sill heights, the lintels lost. To left a long window, the sill at some two-thirds height of door, over door there may have been a square window under eaves, mostly gone, but with splayed reveals unlike other openings, and to right a window with sill at door-head level. Full height S gable wall. Rear wall is built against bank and has centre and N windows with slab-lintels and small gables over. N end may have been demolished for later use as a cart-shed.
Included as part of the group of outbuildings at Plas-yn-Rhiw, of group value with the cart-shed to which it is linked by a wall.
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