Capel Hermon

Capel Hermon is a chapel and vestry dating from the 18th century. The building is constructed of whitewashed roughcast with ashlar dressings on a plinth of grey rough rubble stone, and has slate eaves roofs. The unusual front features a double gable, with the main chapel gable being asymmetrically balanced by a lower gable over the entrance doorway. This smaller gable has a short roof forming a valley, and a longer, low roof to its left. The vestry projects at a right angle to the left, with a large, corniced roughcast stack in the angle where the two roof slopes meet.

The rubble plinth has an ashlar top which steps forward to accommodate three buttresses. A pair of buttresses stand closely flanking the doorway, with the right-hand one also serving as the left buttress of the main chapel gable. This is echoed by a buttress at the right corner, one of a pair clasping that corner. Above the plinth is a very large, six-light window with an ashlar frame, mullions, tracery, leaded lights, and a painted flush sill. Thin buttress-piers rise from plinth level with steeply sloping tops, each crowned by a tiny gable. These frame a deep, double-curved ashlar window head with a gabled keystone, the curve being shallower at the head of the window than at the upper edge. The window mullions are plain vertical, except for the centre one, which develops into cinquefoil-cusped heart tracery framed by two cusped mouchettes. A small, triple vent with louvres is set into the chapel gable.

The doorway to the left has a tall, narrow door with a three-light overlight, also featuring a double-curved ashlar head in miniature proportion to the large window. The overlight has vertical mullions cusping towards the centre light, mirrored by the shape echoed in the head of the leaded-glazed panel in the door below. Beneath the long sloping roof to the left is a plain roundel. A door is set into the short return wall. The set-back vestry wing to the left has a taller roof, and two narrow, twelve-pane fixed-light windows to its side wall on the right. A large, arched end-wall window with a keystone surround is present, along with two similar narrow windows to the extreme left of the rear wall, adjacent to the rear gable of the chapel. This gable has flanking buttresses with ramped tops, a plain barred roundel window, and a small vent in the gable, similar to the front. The right side of the chapel has paired fifteen-pane windows set between buttresses with ramped tops.

Inside, a passage provides access to the chapel to the right and the vestry straight ahead. The doors are half-glazed. The chapel has a broad interior without galleries, and a pulpit on the rear gable wall. It features a panelled dado and stained pine pews arranged in three blocks with panelled backs, slightly raked towards the rear. There are inward-facing pews on each side of a panelled, three-sided 'set fawr' (a formal area) facing a low pulpit with four Gothic-traceried panels and canted sides. A seat within a recess has vertical boarding behind with similar blind tracery, rising up to incorporate a round window with a hoodmould. The roof is three-bay, with three-sided ceilings at collar level. Two large, arch-braced collar trusses are supported by ogee curved brackets resting on stone corbels. Exposed rafters and collar-rafters are visible. A broad opening with a slatted roller-blind provides access to the vestry from the left wall. The vestry has a three-sided plastered ceiling and boarded dado.