Capel Shiloh

Capel Shiloh is a late 19th-century building, originally a chapel, constructed with a cement-rendered Italianate-style facade applied to a core of slate-hung rubblestone; it has a gable-ended slate roof. The main front is pedimented and divided into 2:3:2 bays, featuring rusticated pilasters on the lower tier and Corinthian pilasters above a projecting string course. A full entablature with a frieze and cornice tops the pediment, which has a triangular motif in the centre with the word "SHILOH" displayed below in raised lettering. The windows are paired or triple, all with cambered heads, moulded surrounds, keystones, and six panes per sash, with an additional rectangular pane at the top. A shallow-pedimented porch, with rusticated pilasters, displays the date "1896" picked out below the entablature. The entrance has a segmental-headed doorway with double doors, each featuring six panels and a single curved full-width panel above. The returns have similar windows, but without the surrounds; a boarded-over panelled door is found in a far bay on the right return. A slightly lower, single-bay range with an integral end stack to the rear gable end serves as a Sunday School/vestry, with rooms located above.

The interior is notable for its ornamental flat panelled ceiling with coving, supported by curved ribs springing from a decorative frieze. The ceiling is divided into richly moulded square and rectangular panels, with three diamond-shaped panels running centrally, featuring elaborately decorated roses and pendants from which electroliers hang. The chapel retains raking pitch-pine box pews throughout, including to the gallery, which surrounds all four sides and is supported by nine cast-iron columns with Corinthian capitals. The gallery front features panel and pie decoration and embossed stars, with a corbelled underside and large console brackets adjoining the columns. A simple inset clock by John Jones of Bethesda faces the "set fawr” (or pulpit area). This area has a panelled raised enclosure, with a reading desk and pulpit accessed by balustraded stairs with dumpy turned newels. The organ, set in a round-arched recess with a keystone and Doric pilasters rising from the gallery, occupies a position above and behind the pulpit. Four-panel doors lead from the set fawr area to the Sunday School/vestry, while further four-panel doors in the gallery provide access to the rooms above. Additional four-panel doors flanking a fixed nine-paned window with margin lights under the gallery offer access to an entrance lobby, which features a slate floor and two oil lamps. Staircases at each end, with spindle balusters and turned newels, cross in front of the gallery windows. Small first-floor rooms at the set fawr end incorporate pilastered cast-iron fireplaces, and a marble First World War memorial stands to the right of the set fawr.