Capel Croesywaun

This is a simple Classical-style chapel, built in the late 19th century. It is constructed of rendered rubblestone, with some roughcast panels and plaster decoration to the front, and has a slate roof. The front has a pedimented gable, arranged in three bays of 1:2:1, divided by plain pilasters, including at the corners and windows. The pilasters have palmette leaf decoration to their capitals; there is a rusticated base and a simple band above the ground floor level, and a bolder cornice to the eaves, which extends around the pediment. Twin 10-panel double doors are set within round-arched openings with fanlights, flanking a shorter central panel. Tall, round-arched windows with margin lights are placed in the outer bays, and shorter but similar twin, round-headed windows are in the centre panel of the middle stage. Above the eaves cornice, there is a moulded semi-circular panel with a keyblock enclosing three moulded roundels with glazing bars. The word "CROESYWAUN" is picked out in a panelled strip above. The plain side returns have four recessed sash windows with margin lights in simple architraves to each stage, the upper windows being round-headed. A four-panel door with a rectangular overlight is located beyond the fourth bay of the right return. The rear gable end is roughcast and features two round-arched sashes as on the returns to the upper level, with narrower, square-headed sashes to the ground stage.

The interior is in good, late 19th-century condition. The flat ceiling has plaster ribs and rich pendant decoration, particularly elaborate to the central, oval-shaped rose; the outer panels are diagonally timber-boarded. There is plaster decoration to the cornice, and electroliers, which likely originally hung from the pendants, are located in the corners of the panels. The chapel has raking pitch-pine box pews throughout, including to the gallery, which is supported on seven cast-iron fluted columns with Corinthian capitals. Short, fluted pilasters mark the pew divisions. There is an inset clock by J W Benson of Ludgate Hill, London. A panelled and balustraded enclosure is raised to the front, with a reading desk and pulpit set into an elliptical-arched recess, which has half-height Corinthian pilasters, panelled splays, and a rear area below a two-light stained glass window with a fluted Corinthian pilaster in the centre. There is plaster decoration and a keyblock to the upper part of the arch. Six-panel doors to either side of the pulpit lead to an entrance lobby with stairs to either side for access to the gallery. Further six-panel doors under the gallery, at the opposite end, lead to a space below, which is divided into two rooms by a tongue and groove partition; the right room is larger, and contains folding benches/desks.