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Latitude: 53.1143 / 53°6'51"N
Longitude: -4.2129 / 4°12'46"W
OS Eastings: 251985
OS Northings: 359741
OS Grid: SH519597
Mapcode National: GBR 5L.7WLB
Mapcode Global: WH54L.8Z3F
Plus Code: 9C5Q4Q7P+PR
Entry Name: Capel Croesywaun
Listing Date: 21 July 1999
Last Amended: 21 July 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 22050
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Croes-y-Waun Chapel
ID on this website: 300022050
Location: Located on the main road running through Croesywaun with the Sunday School/Vestry adjacent; narrow forecourt has low rubble wall with slate coping, fleur-de-lys iron railings and decorated double gate
County: Gwynedd
Town: Caernarfon
Community: Waunfawr
Community: Waunfawr
Locality: Croesywaun
Built-Up Area: Waunfawr
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
Tagged with: Chapel
Calvinist Methodist chapel built in the late C19.
Simple Classical style. Rendered rubblestone with some roughcast panels and plaster decoration to front; slate roof. Pedimented gabled front in 1:2:1 bays divided by 3 orders of plain pilasters, including to corners and windows, with palmette leaf decoration to capitals; rusticated base and simple impost band to ground stage; bolder cornice to eaves carried up around pediment. Twin 10-panel double doors in round-arched openings with fanlights flank shorter centre panel. Tall round-arched windows with margin lights in outer bays and much shorter but similar twin round-headed windows in centre panel to middle stage. Above the eaves cornice is a moulded semi-circular panel with keyblock enclosing 3 moulded roundels with glazing bars. The word "CROESYWAUN" is picked out in a panelled strip above. The plain returns have 4 recessed sash windows with margin lights in simple architraves to each stage, the upper round-headed. 4-panel door with rectangular overlight beyond the fourth bay to right return. Rear gable end is roughcast and has 2 round-arched sashes as on returns to upper level with narrower square-headed sashes to ground stage.
Good late C19 interior. Flat panelled ceiling with plaster ribs and rich pendant decoration to inner panels, especially elaborate to central oval-shaped rose; diagonal timber boarding to outer panels; plaster decoration to cornice. Electroliers, which probably originally hung from the pendants, to corners of panels. Raking pitch-pine box pews throughout including to gallery, which is supported on 7 cast-iron fluted columns with Corinthian capitals and has short fluted pilasters (marking the pew divisions) to the front and simple inset clock by J W Benson of Ludgate Hill, London facing the set fawr. This has panelled and balustraded raised enclosure to front with reading desk and pulpit behind set into elliptical-arched recess with half-height Corinthian pilasters, panelled splays and rear below 2-light stained glass window with fluted Corinthian pilaster to centre; plaster decoration and key-block to upper part of arch. 6-panel doors to either side of set fawr lead to entrance lobby with stairs to either side to gallery. Further 6-panel doors under gallery at opposite end lead to space below; this is divided into 2 rooms by tongue and groove partition, the right larger with folding benches/desks.
Included as an unaltered late C19 chapel with a good interior forming a strong group with the adjoining Sunday School and Vestry.
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