Calfaria Chapel

Calfaria Chapel is a building dating from 1871, constructed in a Classical style. The main front has three bays with a pediment, interrupted by a taller, central bay that extends the full height of the building. The exterior is of coursed rubble with freestone dressings, including a moulded cornice, quoins, and a plinth. The roof is slate, featuring some cresting and boarded eaves. A stone roundel, featuring a bricked-up quatrefoil above a datestone with swags, tops the façade. The main entrance is below the wheel window, and is distinguished by a deeply moulded round arched surround and panelled doors with an intersecting Gothic fanlight, leading to semi-circular steps. Small-paned sash windows with horned glazing bars and marginal glazing bars are found in the outer bays, along with cornices and blind, panelled aprons below a gallery, and voussoirs at ground floor level. The façade continues around the corners. The side elevations consist of four bays, featuring a high plinth acting as a ground floor sill and similar sash windows with round arches above square heads.

A hall, dated 1871, is set transversely and projects to either side at the far end, with snecked rubble and a slate roof. The front of this hall, facing Griffith Street, has a three-bay gabled design, featuring tall round arched windows with glazing bars and 'Y' shaped heads, a central panelled door with an intersecting tracery fanlight, and horned 12-pane sashes to the rear.

A burial ground surrounds the chapel, containing later 19th-century monuments, including one dedicated to the notable Dr Thomas Price. The burial ground is bordered by a rubble wall to Monk Street and rises up Griffith Street with rounded coping. Two entrances are present, with the primary entrance in Monk Street featuring gate piers topped by glass lamps on metal bases (one missing to the right). The entrance to Griffith Street is located opposite the Bethania Ysgoldy.

The rectangular interior features a coved and boarded ceiling, with roses in the corners and centre, and a diamond-shaped panel with plaster foliage detail. A raked gallery projects into the church, supported by cast iron columns with a bowed front featuring intricate foliage. The platform and steps leading to the 'set fawr' (main area) have cast iron newels with gilding and ball finials, and barley twist balusters. A baptistery is situated beneath the gallery. A simple Gothic organ case is present. The hall at the rear has a five-bay roof, a boarded ceiling, and a billet moulded cornice. A gallery is located at one end of the hall, with a panelled timber front that is swept round at the ends.