Capel Drws-y-coed and Ty Capel is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 July 2000. Chapel, manse.

Capel Drws-y-coed and Ty Capel

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 July 2000
Type
Chapel, manse
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Simple Classical style. Roughcast stone with rendered dressings and slate roof. Gabled front has tall round-arched sash window with margin lights and Gibbsian surround (stressed quoins) to centre with similar but smaller windows in the gabled single-storey porches on either side, the inner returns of which have plank doors. Rendered quoins to both porches and chapel, which has a plain string course, above which is an arched inscription panel, also with Gibbsian surround, reading to tympanum "DRWS-Y-COED/ ADEILADWYD 1836/ AIL ADEILADWYD 1892". Long return walls of 4 bays have tall round-arched sash windows with margin lights as on front. Manse attached to rear under continuous roof line has C20 windows in original openings; integral end stack and ridge stack at junction with chapel.

Right-hand porch has semi-circular slate plaque with inscription " CONGREGATIONAL BUILDING DRWSYCOED BUILT 1836 REBUILT 1856/ KEEP THY FOOT WHEN THOU GOEST TO/ THE HOUSE OF GOD/ HOLINESS BECOMETH THINE HOUSE/ FOR EVER"; duplicate inscription in Welsh to left-hand porch. Main body of chapel has boarded flat ceiling with ribs coming from each corner to elaborate ceiling rose; moulded plaster cornice. Round-arched niche at far end has paired fluted pilasters and fluted brackets; dentil cornice and architrave with keystone. Set fawr has semi-circular balustraded pulpit, pitch pine pews, rail with turned balusters and newels with ball finials; oil lamps. Marble tablet to William M Roberts (d.1918).

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