Capel y Drewen including Vestry Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 March 1996. Chapel.

Capel y Drewen including Vestry Railings

WRENN ID
stubborn-facade-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 March 1996
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Whitewashed stone with cast-stone dressings and slate roofs. Unusual free style without period detail. The main chapel S side wall, parallel to road, has three pairs of plain arched small windows over ground floor porch/lobby flat-roofed projection, which is framed by two gables, smaller to left, with roof carried down lower to left, larger to right. Vestry across E end with flat roofed porch projection. Left gable has narrow centre with two rectangular stair lights, diagonally stepped, and two narrow rectangular gable lights. Set-back section to left has third, higher, stair-light and SW and NW angles chamfered in diminishing steps. Two lower diagonally-stepped stair lights in W side wall which projects slightly from main W end. W end two rectangular ground floor windows and three stepped arched gable lights. Centre porch/lobby range has cast cornice, two narrow rectangular lights each side of projecting doorway framed by two taller corniced octagonal thick piers, partly in brick, with shallow arch stretched between. Cornice stepped over 1921 date. Similar half-octagonal responds against gable walls each end. Right transept gable has big 3-light segmental arched window with flat mullions and transom and curved hoodmould over. Vestry gable set-back to right has three stepped rectangular windows with curved hood over centre light. Porch projection with slightly curved cornice, single light each side of flat-headed recessed centre door. Framing taller piers with chamfered angles and flat caps. All windows have leaded lights.

Whitewashed rubble front wall with earlier C19 scrolled iron low rails, with dog-bars and urn stanchions.

T-plan chapel with ornate roof: big tie-beam, queen-post and collar trusses, slatted in outer and upper triangles. W gallery with low balustrade. Similar balustrading to semicircular great seat and semi-circular pulpit, set in front of broad arch with folding high doors, to allow vestry behind to be used as stage. Pulpit front is removable. Gabled S transept and lean-to smaller N transept.

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