Melincwrt Independent Chapel

Chapel, rendered or roughcast with slate roof and left end chimney. Long-wall facade of 2 plain arched windows to centre, small-paned sashes without original fanlights, now boarded over, 2 small arched upper gallery lights with C20 plastic glazing, and, slightly further out, 2 plain cambered headed doors. Slate plaque of 1999 between windows, covering former plaque 'Melincwrt 1799'. Paired brackets to eaves. Rendered end walls, slate-hung rear with 2 upper arched gallery lights, C20 plastic glazing.

Exceptional interior of primitive simplicity, with stone-flagged floor, white-painted five-sided gallery, panelled in vertical panels and carried on 3 timber octagonal posts to the front and 2 further back. Flat plastered gallery underside with single C20 flight of stairs in rear right corner. Panelled box pews with some fielded panels, suggesting some older woodwork re-used. Pews on rear wall are raked slightly, then aisle following line of gallery divides off inner block of pews, set fawrand pulpit. Set fawr is simply a bench on 2 of 3 sides of pulpit enclosure with 2 doors. Box pews behind each side. Plain square pulpit with single flight of steps from right, looks C20. White-painted plain panelled pulpit back with pediment. Plaster ceiling with small acanthus rose. Galleries have open back benches with diagonal crossed timbers in the backs.