Capel Tegid, Including Forecourt Railings, Gates & Gatepiers. is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 April 1997. Chapel.

Capel Tegid, Including Forecourt Railings, Gates & Gatepiers.

WRENN ID
quartered-mantel-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 April 1997
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Gothic chapel. Of green/grey rough-dresed, snecked stone, with sandstone dressings and slate roofs. Entrance front faces square; (later) slate-hung gable, with 4-light upper window. Gothic entrance below with pointed-arched doorway having applied shafts and naturalistic foliage capitals; moulded label with foliated stops. Relief roundel in tympanum; boarded doors with simple Gothic ironwork. Flanking trefoil windows and shallow stepped buttresses to ends. To the L of the front is a truncated tower formerly with stone spire; cusped triangular window above lancet; ground floor doorway, diagonal buttress. The spire has been removed since the last inspection (1997) and has been given a modern slated gable. To R of front, set back, is a stair block with a round window above a Gothic doorway; 2-light window with plate-tracery to R return. Side elevations have five 2-light windows at 2 levels, with plain metal-framed windows; vestries to rear. Spherical-triangle window at rear gable apex. The forecourt at the entrance has 2 sets of stone gatepiers, and iron gates and railings with spear finials.

Body of chapel has braced roof; U-shaped gallery on iron columns, Gothic balcony frontal. At upper level, second level of columns with floral capitals supports Gothic arcading. Set Fawr enclosure with steps up to panelled pulpit; to rear, panelling supports organ case with exposed tiers of pipes. Vestries etc to rear; to front, staircase towers have wooden Gothic stairs with quatrefoil iron balustrade.

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