Tanygroes Calvinistic Methodist Chapel including Forecourt Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 June 1995. Chapel.

Tanygroes Calvinistic Methodist Chapel including Forecourt Walls and Railings

WRENN ID
pale-sill-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 June 1995
Type
Chapel
Address
Tanygroes Calvinistic Methodist Chapel including Forecourt Walls and Railings, Penbryn
OS grid reference
SN 285 493
Coordinates
52.11605, -4.50596
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Tanygroes Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, built in 1849 and extended in 1882, is constructed from squared Pwntan sandstone and features a slate roof. The chapel has a gable front with a pediment outlined by a raised strip, complemented by projecting pieces at each end supported by two console brackets. A plain roundel is situated in the pediment. The front facade includes two closely spaced long arched windows and two slightly shorter long arched gallery lights above two flat-headed doors. All openings are framed with recessed cut sandstone voussoirs. The windows contain 1849 small-paned hornless sashes with radiating-bar heads, while the doors have 20th-century doors and overlights. A rectangular plaque in a scroll-pedimented sandstone frame at the center reads, "Tanygroes a Adeiladwyd gan y Trefnyddion Calfinaidd yn y flwyddyn 1849 a helaethwyd 1882."

The sides of the chapel are two-storey with two windows, featuring cambered-headed 12-pane sashes below and arched sashes above, also with cut stone voussoirs. The rear is similarly two-storey with a louvred arched gable opening. The front court is enclosed by low iron railings set on slate-coped low walls, with two painted Cilgerran stone piers topped with cross-gabled caps and double iron gates. There are outer sandstone piers with similar caps.

Inside, the chapel features a pulpit backing on the entry wall from 1882, a three-sided gallery supported by fluted iron columns with curved corners, and long horizontal panels with narrow strips of pierced cast iron and pilasters with arched panels in between. A fretwork cornice runs over the columns. The pulpit is three-sided with steps leading up and front fretwork panels, and there is a narrow plaster arch behind the pulpit. The great seat is panelled, and the plaster ceiling is adorned with a central rose, diagonal ribs, and four corner square ventilators.

Local climate

Tanygroes Calvinistic Methodist Chapel including Forecourt Walls and Railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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