Llwydcoed Crematorium

Llwydcoed Crematorium, built in the 20th century, comprises four asymmetrical blocks with steep slate roofs arranged in a manner that creates a fractured pyramid shape, as noted by architectural historian Sir Bernard Newman. The main spaces are the large Capel Mair, which can accommodate 120 people, and the smaller Capel Tydfil, seating 50. A third block serves as the Chapel of Remembrance, and a fourth contains the crematorium itself, distinguished by a large chimney. Lower blocks provide a waiting room, vestry, and former offices. These blocks are interconnected by covered courtyards, the flat roofs of which extend outwards to form portes-cocheres supported by roughcast screen walls. Openings in the courtyard roofs provide light to planted areas below. The construction primarily uses white roughcast walls on natural stone plinths, with extensive roofs covered in Ffestiniog slates; pine boarding is used for exterior canopy ceilings, and natural paving covers the courtyards.

A former office and waiting room block has a flat roof with a mono-pitch roof over the windows illuminating the waiting room.

The materials throughout are predominantly roughcast walls with natural stone plinths and flooring, and pine boarded ceilings. Inside Capel Mair, a glass curtain wall with a door at each end leads to a lateral corridor and a waiting room on the left. The chapel itself features a high, quarter-pyramidal roof with pine boarding, lit by a window high in the inner corner of that pyramid and by windows at the eaves. A wall with relief decoration screens the organ, while a black marble altar sits on a white marble plinth; to the right is a recess containing a painted sandstone catafalque, and to the left, an exit doorway. The original seating remains. Capel Tydfil is similarly lit by a window high in a quarter-pyramidal roof. A wall with geometrical reliefs screens the organ; to the left is an altar with a white marble top and black marble plinth, and a recess for a painted sandstone catafalque. An exit doorway is located to the right, and original seating is present. A small waiting room and vestry are situated near the entrance. The Chapel of Remembrance is lit by a window high in a quarter-pyramidal roof and contains stone benches (painted sandstone) for floral tributes, and a central octagonal plinth (painted sandstone) to house the Book of Remembrance. The crematorium block contains operational elements of the building.