The Little Chapel, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.4144 / 52°24'51"N

Longitude: -4.0875 / 4°5'14"W

OS Eastings: 258122

OS Northings: 281654

OS Grid: SN581816

Mapcode National: GBR 8R.NXYN

Mapcode Global: VH4FC.3KGY

Plus Code: 9C4QCW77+Q2

Entry Name: The Little Chapel

Listing Date: 21 July 1961

Last Amended: 24 November 1987

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 10322

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Unitarian Chapel
Unitarian Meeting House
Little Chapel

ID on this website: 300010322

Location: On the corner with Castle Street; to rear of No 6 Laura Place.

County: Ceredigion

Community: Aberystwyth

Built-Up Area: Aberystwyth

Traditional County: Cardiganshire

Tagged with: Chapel

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History

After 1834. Formerly the Nanteos estate office before it moved to No 11 Laura Place, then a Quaker Meeting House when the building was given its chapel front. It subsequently became Galloways bookshop before that moved to Pier Street and then in 1906 was converted into a Unitarian chapel. Ceased to be a chapel in 1976 and converted to museum use.

Exterior

Edwardian classical pedimented scribed stucco front with end pilaster strips and plinth; corrugated roof. Central tall sash window with lugged architrave flanked by panelled door entrances with cornices below circular windows. Whitewashed rubble right side in Castle Street with voussoirs to blocked segmental openings, the evidence of which has led to suggestions that it was originally built as a coach house to No 6 Laura Place but it is not shown on the 1834 map.

Reasons for Listing

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The Little Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion