Independent Chapel, Llanllyfni, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0253 / 53°1'31"N

Longitude: -4.2809 / 4°16'51"W

OS Eastings: 247121

OS Northings: 349992

OS Grid: SH471499

Mapcode National: GBR 5H.FJKT

Mapcode Global: WH440.67Q1

Plus Code: 9C5Q2PG9+4J

Entry Name: Independent Chapel

Listing Date: 21 July 2000

Last Amended: 21 July 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 23692

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Nasareth Welsh Independent Chapel

ID on this website: 300023692

Location: Located on the eastern side of the village street with the manse (Ty Capel) directly adjacent, the chapel is approached by a driveway flanked by low stone walls.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarfon

Community: Llanllyfni

Locality: Nasareth

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Chapel

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History

Shown on the 1840 Tithe Map, the chapel was founded as an Independent chapel in 1823 but the present building is unlikely to have been erected before c1860.

Exterior

Simple rectangular plan in plain Gothic style. Regularly coursed and dressed rubblestone (mainly granite) to front, more roughly coursed to sides and rear; slate roof. 2 broad C20 lancets with C20 windows to centre of front gable, flanked by round-arched doorways with plank doors and fanlights, all with stone voussoirs. Windows of the same pattern appear to sides and rear, 3 to former and 2 to latter.

Interior

Raked floor with plastered walls above matchboarded dado; plain moulded cornice to flat ceiling with central ornamental plaster rose. Complete set of box pews with chamfered panels. Set fawr contains pulpit with 2 flights of steps, turned balustrade, square newels with finials and panelled sides.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a good example of a simple mid-C19 Independent chapel with contemporary manse adjoining, forming the nucleus of a characteristic upland hamlet in the distinctive slate quarrying landscape of the area. The chapel interior has undergone little later alteration.

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Independent Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanllyfni, Gwynedd