Capel Pennant

Capel Pennant and 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 before 1883, but the left door was blocked during the remodel. 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. It has a many-panelled door and a traceried fanlight. The chapel windows have similar stucco heads and keystones, with an attractive glazing pattern featuring narrow marginal panes. There is a centre oval slate plaque 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.

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 has 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. There is a raised centre roundel with a clock, along with a balustraded curved great seat and pulpit featuring a three-sided panelled front. Behind the pulpit are stucco Corinthian pilasters with a moulded arch, and the plaster ceiling has a centre rose.

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