Capel Cana and school rooms is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 April 1998. Chapel, school. 1 related planning application.
Capel Cana and school rooms
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-mantel-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1998
- Type
- Chapel, school
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Simple Classical chapel with Renaissance enrichment to entrance front. Single storey, 3 bays. Pebble-dash over stone, with cement dressings and a shallow pitched slate roof with tiled cresting. A school room is set at right angles at the rear of the building with outbuildings added to the NW end. NE gable entrance added 1906, articulated by angle quoins and expressed as 2 storeys. Entrances to either side of advanced central bay, which, at first floor level, forms an aedicule with fluted pilasters to a Palladian window which has Tuscan pilasters and moulded cornice; incised lettering over, reading CANA 1906. Oculi in moulded architraves in flanking bays above the entrances. Lower storey has entrances in Tuscan architraves to either side, and engaged arcade in centre-piece. Each return has recessed 6-pane lights with segmental heads, upper storey with hoodmould; each bay of the main part of the chapel with tall round headed windows of 12-pane sashes under a 3-pane fixed light, each with hood moulds. School rooms to the rear of similar build, 3 bays with square-headed sash windows set into segmental-headed surrounds.
Entrances lead into small vestibules, each with panelled doors leading to main chapel with set fawr at opposite end. Raking pews, set fawr and pulpit of pitch pine. Set fawr raised by one step with panelling to lower part, balustraded with turned balusters and moulded rails, side entrances with turned newels; pulpit of 3 bays with central bay advanced, panelled to lower part with decorated panels in upper part, dentilled cornice and balustered as for set fawr, raised by 3 circular stairs. Wide, semi-circular headed recess behind set fawr formed by engaged composite piers supporting a moulded arch with scrolled acanthus leaf keystone; with panels of stylized foliage in relief below and to each side of the arch, trailed floriate frieze above under a moulded corbelled cornice. Walls are plastered, with tongued and grooved panelling to lower part; coved ceiling of plastered panels, entrance vestibules with shaped parapets. Schoolrooms have original bench seats and panelled reading desk at left end, panelled doors and walls with tongued and grooved panelling to lower half.
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