Capel Rhydybont

Capel Rhydybont is a chapel dating from the late Gothic style. The chapel is constructed of roughcast with Forest of Dean stone dressings and a slate roof. The front gable features a Gothic design with plain outer piers featuring flush quoins and inset blank panels at the top, these panels being flat-headed with ogee tracery. The centrepiece contains simple piers with flush quoins flanking small leaded windows and recessed, four-centred doorway with carved spandrels. Thin diagonal shafts rise from corbels either side of the door, extending up the facade to finials beneath the gable, framing a plaque above the door and continuing over the mullions of a large five-light traceried window. A broad, rectangular recessed plaque is positioned above the door. The ground floor plain piers are continued on the first floor, flanking the main window, in ashlar with blank cusped pointed panels, set off at the impost level of the main window. A moulded string runs under the sloping sill of the main window, extending across the flanking piers. The main window is segmental-pointed with a hoodmould and complex tracery. A flush band runs along the gable apex below the shaft finials, with a central blank traceried panel. The glazing is leaded, including some Art Nouveau patterns in coloured glass.

The sides of the chapel are plain, rendered two-storey builds, featuring four windows divided by piers, cambered-headed windows, and small-paned glazing. A rear organ lean-to is present, with small ground floor lean-tos flanking it.

Inside, the chapel is lofty, featuring a gallery on four sides, with the fourth, smaller, gallery positioned in front of a large organ recess, although the organ itself was never installed. The gallery arch is moulded, depressed with shoulders and a keystone. A four-bay roof is supported by arch-braced collar trusses on corbels, with sloping sides and a ceiling at collar level. Each ceiling bay contains a rectangular boarded panel with diagonal ribs; two have centre metal pierced roses. The sloping sides also have rectangular boarded panels. The galleries are supported by iron columns with swollen acanthus heads. The gallery front features a timber cornice under a continuous cast-iron band, constructed from bolted sections with a double curve profile, fluted below an anthemion-type pierced upper section, and a timber top rail. The fourth side exhibits similar ironwork in front of the organ gallery, with timber panels to downcurved and in-stepped sides. The pews are arranged in three blocks; the outer blocks are canted with flat cornices to the bench ends, as are the raked gallery pews. A similar three-sided set fawr is also present. The large pulpit platform is accessed by steps on each side, with turned balusters and square panelled newels with urn finials. A short balustrade flanks the canted, panelled pulpit front, incorporating a cornice and bookrest; the pulpit is supported by large brackets from a central stem.

The rear lobby has four leaded two-light windows with Art Nouveau coloured glass and top lights, as well as two matching half-glazed doors. An enclosed staircase leads to the galleries.