Ty Capel

Ty Capel is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel built in 1832 and remodelled with an added chapel house in 1883. The exterior features colourwashed stucco and a close-eaved slate roof. The lateral facade has a raised plinth and angle quoins, with two long arched centre windows and two slightly narrower arched outer gallery lights. Originally, there were two arched doorways, but the left door was blocked in 1883. The right door is set in a slightly raised gabled surround with fretted bargeboards and a pendant over a raised stucco arch with a keystone, featuring a many-panelled door and a traceried fanlight. The chapel windows have similar stucco heads and keystones, with an attractive glazing pattern of narrow marginal panes. A centre oval slate plaque is set in a stucco surround. The south wall is made of rubble stone, with brackets to the gable, while the whitewashed rear wall has three long arched windows with brick arched heads.

The chapel house, known as Ty Capel, has a slightly lower roofline than the chapel and features a stone and yellow brick north stack on the front roof slope. It is roughcast with a stucco plinth and angle strip, and consists of three storeys with a one-window range of sashes that have marginal glazing bars, with the upper sash breaking into a gable. The door is positioned at the extreme corner against the chapel.

Inside, the chapel was reordered in 1883 to face the south end wall. Entry is through a lobby with a multi-paned coloured-glass window located under the gallery. The three-bay gallery across the north wall is slightly canted back, with bays divided by panelled pilasters. Each bay features brackets under a fretted cornice, followed by long low panels of turned balusters, long horizontal panels, and then long low panels of squat turned balusters under a fretted top cornice. A raised centre roundel with a clock is present, along with a balustraded curved great seat and pulpit that has a three-sided panelled front. Behind the pulpit are stucco Corinthian pilasters with a moulded arch, and the plaster ceiling features a central rose.

Ty Capel is a well-preserved small chapel from the 1830s, notable for its unusually attractive glazing and interior woodwork from 1883, set in an exceptional rural location close to Pont Pennant.