Capel Celyn Memorial Chapel

Built of local rubble stone with some dressed Arenig granite blocks; monopitch Blaenau Ffestiniog slate roof. Simple geometric form with walls gradually rising from the low entrance front overlooking the lake to a curved end with a high parapet, wrapping round an angled full-height glazed panel illuminating memorial stones within, and facing towards the site of the chapel in the lost village of Capel Celyn. There is a simple small cross at one end of this high curving wall. At their lower end, the side walls of the chapel step down and continue to enclose a terraced area overlooking the lake. From here, steps lead down to a slate path which runs around the chapel, bounded by a rubble retaining wall to the garden of remembrance above. The terraced is paved with riven slate, as a continuation of the floor inside the chapel. A further flight of steps leads down to the lake shore.

Simple interior, with bare stone walls and slate slab floor, and exposed stained roof timbers. Two steps up to curved end, on which 3 finely lettered Aberllefenni slates (inscribed by R.L.Gapper) commemorate all those buried at the original chapel, and the names of those re-buried at Llanycil and Trawsfynydd, as well as the names of two men who lost their lives in the Second World War, and were buried overseas. There is also a short line of verse from the poem Y Diwygiwr by Ben Bowen (1878-1903, whose poem ‘Pantycelyn’ won second prize at the Liverpool National Eisteddfod in 1900): ‘Yn nwfn swyn ei fynwes o/caf lonydd caf le i huno’.