Tower of Yr Hen Gapel, including attached wall-footings is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 November 1966. Church tower.
Tower of Yr Hen Gapel, including attached wall-footings
- WRENN ID
- woven-grate-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1966
- Type
- Church tower
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Rubble stone ruins of C14 and later church on a roughly E-W orientation, comprising truncated W tower, E wall, and lower courses of side walls. Square C14 tower, battered base with fragmentary string course just below cambered head of W door which has stone voussoirs. Upper storey removed and replaced in 1879 by plain pyramidal slate roof. Stone 'eleventh hour' clockface to W, dated 1879, the hands 'frozen' at five minutes to ten, Roman numerals, incised spandrel panels. Low walls to former nave, with gap for former S door. E wall stands to c3m with battered base and flat-headed 2-light traceried E window with trefoiled heads to lights.
Pointed stone vault to tower ground floor. Blocked recess above doorway - possibly former opening, with slate lintel. Small pointed arched headed nave door with stone voussoirs. Roofless nave formerly with whitewashed plaster. E end has raised slate flag floor with squared recess to S wall with slate sill - possible former window. Small square alcove in E wall immediate S of window.
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