Pen-yr-heol Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 December 1995. Chapel.

Pen-yr-heol Chapel

WRENN ID
mired-beam-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 December 1995
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Colourwashed stone with a half-hipped slate roof. A single cell with an added boiler house extension at right angles with a large terminal stack, the addition with a stone slate roof. Two bays. C20 blockwork porch added at the NW front end with asbestos slates, re-using double planked doors and 'Y'-tracery pointed windows. The original inner entrance consists of a pair of 3-panel doors. At the sides, 2 pointed headed timber windows with stone voussoirs.

A stone inscription panel on the SW side reads: The Memoir of/TWO HUNDRED AND /FORTY POUNDS of The/Pious Donation of /Thomas Williams/of the Island GENT/in the Parish of/ Llanigon and County/ of Brecon, band/for the Use and Benefit/of this Penyrheol/Church for ever. // Ll.....ve 1 ft.

Very simple plastered interior. The roof has open timber trusses dividing 2 central full bays and quarter-bays at the ends. Pulpit a part-octagon set against the E window, which has been partially covered.

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