Capel Bethel is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 March 2000. A C19 Chapel.
Capel Bethel
- WRENN ID
- spare-casement-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 March 2000
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel Bethel is a former Methodist chapel built in a simple Gothick style, with attached accommodation at the rear. The building features stuccoed rubblestone and has a short hipped slate roof over the chapel, with a gable-ended roof at the back. The chapel includes a central hip-roofed porch with inner panelled double doors beneath a fanlight that has intersecting Gothick glazing bars. This porch is flanked by round-arched 25-paned sash windows, also with intersecting Gothick glazing bars at the heads. There are two 30-paned sash windows on each side return, all windows equipped with slate cills.
The two-storey domestic accommodation at the rear is accessed through a late 20th-century panelled door on the left side, featuring a small 12-paned sash window on each floor. The building has a central ridge stack. Above the stable, there is a former hayloft that can be entered through a plank door in the rear gable end, which is set into a steep bank. The date "1869" is scratched into the slate lintel above this door.
Most of the fittings and furnishings have been removed, and the former raking floor has been raised to an even level throughout. However, the ribbed and boarded flat ceiling with pendants for ventilators, plaster cornice, and plastered walls with boarded dado panelling remain. The internal entrance lobby is still intact, along with remnants of the set fawr enclosure and a couple of pews at the opposite end. The former domestic accommodation at the rear includes a fireplace with large slate slab jambs and lintel, as well as a staircase with slender turned balusters.
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