Tal-y-Bont Chapel including forecourt walls and railings is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 October 2001. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Tal-y-Bont Chapel including forecourt walls and railings
- WRENN ID
- kindled-ledge-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 October 2001
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Tal-y-Bont Chapel including forecourt walls and railings, Rhyd-Uchaf, Bala, Llanycil, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 900 379
- Coordinates
- 52.92724, -3.63664
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Tal-y-Bont Chapel is a medium-sized Victorian village chapel built in an eclectic Romanesque style. It features snecked, rough-dressed slatestone facing, with quoins and dressings made of pale grey limestone ashlar. The chapel has a medium-pitched slate roof with coped and kneelered gable parapets, topped by a decorative iron finial on the front gable and a squat brick boiler chimney at the rear.
The symmetrical facade includes a single-storey porch projection at the center, flanked by windows on either side and above. The porch is designed as a lean-to with a gabled and advanced central section, featuring a segmentally-arched entrance with a moulded arch and a boarded door. Above the entrance is a coped, kneelered gable with an iron finial, and within this gable is a stone plaque inscribed with the dates 1870 and 1937. On either side of the entrance are single bays with dentilated eaves and small rectangular windows, which are plain 2-pane sash type with marginal glazing. Tall round-arched windows with labels having carved, foliated stops are located on both sides of the porch projection, featuring 10-pane 20th-century glazing with plain segmental heads. Above the porch is a large central window of plate tracery type, with an overall round arch and label, containing three round-arched lights supporting a rose.
The sides of the chapel consist of four bays with plain dividing buttresses and large round-arched windows with 9-pane 20th-century glazing and projecting sills.
In front of the chapel, enclosing a forecourt, are low contemporary forecourt walls. These walls have chamfered limestone copings topped with spear-headed railings, and corner piers with stopped-chamfered sides and gabled capping stones. The central gates are flanked by piers with similar railings.
The interior was not inspected during the survey.
Local climate
Tal-y-Bont Chapel including forecourt walls and railings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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