Y Crwys Independent Chapel including boundary railings and piers is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 June 2000. Chapel.
Y Crwys Independent Chapel including boundary railings and piers
- WRENN ID
- solitary-iron-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Gower MP: Tonia Antoniazzi (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 June 2000
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Y Crwys Independent Chapel including boundary railings and piers, Three Crosses, Llanrhidian Higher
- OS grid reference
- SS 571 941
- Coordinates
- 51.62788, -4.06542
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a large, eclectic chapel with round-arched detailing, dating from the 18th century and carrying group value through its significant architectural and historical contribution to the area. The front façade is built of rock-faced ashlar masonry, laid in courses with snecked stones, with dressings in Bath stone. The side and rear elevations are rendered, and the roof is covered with slate, featuring a tile ridge. A large, plain vestry addition, also rendered, extends from the rear. The front façade is slightly returned on each side. The window frames on the front and left side have been replaced with uPVC.
The façade is divided into three sections, with the central part slightly projecting. This central section contains three entrance doors and a large, complex round-arched window above, set between pilasters. Tall, round-headed windows are recessed on either side. The large, multiple window is the highlight of the design, comprising a central round-headed light, two smaller windows on each side, two rows of three smaller windows below, and a halo arch encompassing five circular lights above. There are three courses of sill stonework, interrupted by a small, pediment-like detail above the central door. A string course runs to the springing line of the two outer windows. The three doors have plain arches supported by Gothic capitals, with the abaci having a thin string course extending underneath, where the masonry is slightly battered. A decorative coped gable sits above, featuring acroterion-like details on the corners, apex, and pilasters, with a shallow blind arcading between the pilasters, culminating in a finial at the top. The door arches are inscribed with the name "CAPEL ANNIBYNOL Y CRWYS" in incised letters.
The side elevations feature single gallery windows above pairs of lower windows, all round-headed. Rectangular sash windows are present on the vestry.
The chapel is entered via a plain vestibule lit by clerestory windows taken from the lower lights of the central front window. The interior showcases a hardwood and pitch pine pulpit within a round set fawr, altered during a period of enlargement. A gallery, completed at the same time, wraps around the chapel. Seating is arranged in four blocks with two passageways, and the side pews are angled towards the pulpit. The gallery seating follows a similar design. The gallery front is supported by nine cast-iron columns, with a colourfully painted cast-iron openwork frieze above painted boarding, and a plain handrail above. A section of the gallery behind the pulpit has been dropped, providing additional seating and an organ loft. The organ, a two-manual instrument by Blackett and Howden of Swansea, is recessed within an elliptical-headed opening that breaks through the dentilled cornice. The elliptical-section ceiling is divided into rectangles via shallow ribs. The pulpit is symmetrical, featuring canted sides and a dropping section of handrail leading to winding stairs on each side. Carvings of floral and agricultural scenes are in high relief on the large panels with arched heads, supported by black colonnettes. Memorials include a list of ministers dating from 1689, a memorial to E J Long, choirmaster, 1946, and a bronze memorial to those who fell in the 1939-45 war.
Local climate
Y Crwys Independent Chapel including boundary railings and piers sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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