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
The building comprises a simple Classical chapel with Renaissance detailing to its front, accompanied by schoolrooms at the rear and additional outbuildings to the northwest. The chapel dates to 1906, while a northeastern gable entrance was added in the same year. The chapel is a single storey, three-bay structure built with pebble-dash over stone, featuring cement dressings and a shallow-pitched slate roof with tiled cresting. The 1906 addition is two storeys tall and marked by angle quoins. The front features entrances on either side of an advanced central bay, which houses a first-floor aedicule with fluted pilasters and a Palladian window adorned with Tuscan pilasters and a moulded cornice; incised lettering above reads "CANA 1906." Oculi are set within moulded architraves above the entrances, and the lower storey features entrances in Tuscan architraves and a central engaged arcade. Recessed six-pane lights with segmental heads are set into the returns, with hood moulds above. Tall, round-headed windows with twelve-pane sashes and a three-pane fixed light above are present in each bay of the main chapel, also with hood moulds. The school rooms at the rear mirror the chapel's construction, with three bays and square-headed sash windows set into segmental-headed surrounds.
Entrances lead into small vestibules, which in turn provide access to the main chapel, featuring a set fawr at the opposite end. The chapel's interior includes raking pews, a set fawr, and a pulpit, all crafted from pitch pine. The set fawr is raised by one step and features panelled lower sections, a balustraded design with turned balusters and moulded rails, and side entrances with turned newels. The pulpit consists of three bays, with the central bay projecting, panelled in its lower part, with a dentilled cornice and balustrades matching those on the set fawr, accessed by three circular stairs. Behind the set fawr is a wide, semi-circular headed recess formed by engaged composite piers supporting a moulded arch with a scrolled acanthus leaf keystone. This arch is framed by panels of stylized foliage in relief below and to each side, a trailed floriate frieze above, and a moulded corbelled cornice. The walls are plastered, with tongued and grooved panelling in the lower portion; a coved ceiling of plastered panels completes the chapel’s interior. The entrance vestibules feature shaped parapets. The schoolrooms retain original bench seats, a panelled reading desk at the left end, panelled doors, and tongued and grooved panelling in the lower half of the walls.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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