Penmorfa Calvinistic Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 June 1995. Chapel.

Penmorfa Calvinistic Methodist Chapel

WRENN ID
iron-gable-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 June 1995
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Squared Pwntan sandstone with pale sandstone dressings and slate roof. Lateral facade with two large arched centre windows, arched date plaque between and two smaller arched gallery windows over two arched doors. Windows have 1939 metal tracery with marginal glazing bars and radiating-bar heads. Doors have 1939 panelled double doors with leaded fanlights and stained wood radiating bars. 1939 heavy arched porches in reconstituted stone with chamfered piers, moulded arch underside and hoodmoulded coping. Two storey later C19 vestry and schoolroom to right with yellow brick heads to cambered-headed 4-pane sashes. Rear wall has pulpit projection probably of 1939 with two arched windows and long arched window each side.

Interior: Unusually complete interior of 1939 with extensive panelling. Deep coffered ceiling with eight main rectangular panels and narrow framing panels, the main panels with planted rectangular panels in darker wood, rebated at angles. Cantilevered gallery, five-sided with panelled front and planted rebated-corner rectangles in each panel. Oak pews and big curvedcornered great seat. Pulpit platform projects from rear recess, which has dado panelling. Pulpit front is panelled with planted strips of dark wood in modern style. Behind pulpit is narrow 1957 organ and two stained glass windows of c1939 signed William Morris & Co, Westminster. Coloured glass borders are echoed in sides of leaded lights to half-glazed doors in corner entrance lobbies. Wood panelling to lobbies and similar to gallery undersides.

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