Llawrybettws Chapel

This is a rectangular chapel with a contemporary schoolroom set at right angles to its left, forming an overall L-shaped layout. The chapel's front facade and right (east) return are constructed of red brick in a Flemish Bond pattern, with sandstone ashlar dressings, and slate roofs. The inner side of the chapel, facing the schoolroom, and both sides of the schoolroom are rendered and lined out. The chapel's facade exhibits a well-balanced symmetrical design, featuring expressed quoins, projecting roof verges with simple decorative bargeboards, and a wooden pendant finial. Round-arched entrances are provided with 4-panel moulded double doors and segmental fanlights. The central section is characterized by paired arched windows with 20-pane horned sashes and fanlights, along with projecting stone sills. Above these windows is a centrally placed foundation plaque bearing the dates 1803, 1835, and 1865, constructed with yellow stock brick voussoirs and quoins.

The right (northeast) side of the chapel incorporates three 12-pane sash windows, each with flat dressed stone lintels and projecting sills, and decorative patterning in purple brick headers to the lower portion of the wall. The rear gable end features plain bargeboards and a slated lean-to boilerhouse. The left (southwest) wall, also rendered, has two horned 12-pane sash windows. The window on the left is partially obscured by modern plastic roof sheeting that covers a wooden porch extrusion positioned in the angle with the schoolroom, containing a boarded door. The schoolroom section has a squat brick chimney on its left side and a 12-pane sash with obscured glass to the left of the entrance, with two further 12-pane sashes to the rear. The left gable has corrugated iron cladding and plain bargeboards.

Inside the chapel, the ceiling is divided into three compartments with a vertically-boarded dado and matching boarded wind porches. The original fixed pine box pews are arranged in a double central block and single outer sections, creating aisles. A square enclosure features plain, vertically-boarded lower sections and square-panelled upper sections, the latter with blind ocular decoration, a simple moulded rail and turned finials to the corner posts.

The Panelled Set Fawr has blind quatrefoil decoration at the top and cusped decoration at the bottom, with a moulded rail. A classical arch is incorporated into the plasterwork behind the Set Fawr, featuring recessed, panelled pilasters, a projecting key, and simple ribbed panels within. A partially glazed entrance leads to the schoolroom, accompanied by a multi-pane glazed screen above, combining 12-pane and 4-pane sections.