Capel Calfaria

Chapel, coursed squared brown rubble stone with painted ashlar dressings and slate roof. Italianate style with 3-bay front of Roman Doric pilasters, cornice and pediment gable. Gable has keyed roundel with pierced cinquefoil. Frieze has 'Calfaria' inscribed with 'Addoldy y Bedyddwyr A.D. 1868' below. Main facade has triple arched centre window with moulded architraves, impost blocks and keystones and matching long arched side windows. All windows timber 2-light with arched top panes and centre mullion. Leaded panes. Centre paired arched doors with moulded arches, keystones and thin pilaster sides. Plinth has vermiculated rustication. Two-storey, 5-window side walls in squared brown rubble stone with ashlar plain piers between up to corbel table with ashlar corbels. Paired piers each end. Windows are linked vertically in ashlar frames, arched above with moulded surrounds and impost capitals, stone sills over ground floor rectangular windows with jamb mouldings echoing pilasters above. Timber windows with leaded lights to panes, upper windows with arched top lights and centre mullion. Rendered rear and plain rear vestry.

Broad interior with 3-sided original gallery and fourth side added in late C19 as organ loft. Gallery of 1868 has Jacobean style fretwork panels divided by thin piers. Curved angles, moulded cornice below over close-set scrolled timber brackets. 3x1x3 iron columns. Pitch-pine pews in 3 blocks, pitch pine 3-sided 'set fawr'. Simple pulpit platform with cast iron decorative balusters to stairs and platform, between timber octagonal newels and posts with turned finials. pulpit front breaks forward. Behind is painted panelled front of organ gallery, swept down each side from main gallery level. Very broad pointed arch to organ recess with decorated plasterwork in spandrels and outer pilasters. Large C20 pipe-organ in panelled case with stepped arched frames to pipe-front. Lobby has centre window with coloured glass and 2 doors. Ceiling has plaster cornice, cove, plaster border, then painted boarded wood main part with border, diagonally ribbed main part with big centre fretted timber rose and 8 fretted timber vents in border, 4 square at angles, 4 round in sides.