Watford Chapel

Symmetrical gable-entry chapel in simple classical style. Two-storey, 3-bay front. Rendered under a slate roof with plain barge boards. Round-headed openings to upper storey, the central window larger, square-headed openings to lower storey, all with hoodmoulds and stone sills. Central planked double doors with overlight, flanked by single lights. In the gable apex is an inscription within a moulded rectangular frame. It reads 'WATFORD Congregational Church, Organised 1662, Building Effected 1733, Altered 1842 & 1877, Enlarged 1890'.

The rear E end has 2 tall round headed windows with their original wooden glazing bars. Each contains 2 round-headed lights, a mullion and 3 transoms. Small lean-to below. The S side has a 4-pane window under a shallow segmental head. Adjoining the N side of the chapel is a small house set back, formerly for the minister. Rendered under a cement pan-tile roof with yellow brick end stack. Two-storey, 1-window, with a planked door to the R. Modern casement windows. In front of the house, the chapel has 2 small square-headed windows.

Entrance vestibule with 2 panelled doors leading into chapel. Between doors is a window with coloured margin glazing. A staircase to the L leads up to the gallery. Raked gallery at W end on 2 narrow cast iron columns with 5 tiers of pews. Wooden gallery front with panels containing diagonal planking. Three banks of box pews, the bench ends with circular finials. Wainscot panelling. Square headed fireplace in N Wall. Four-bay roof with plain collar trusses, boarded above. Hollow-moulded plaster coving. Reredos behind pulpit in form of blind round arch, bearing an inscription 'Molwch yr Arglwdd'. Polygonal panelled pulpit reached by stairs with turned balusters and square newel posts. Wood panelled set fawr, in front of which is a highly decorative organ, brought from America. Small wood-planked lobby to SE corner.

Memorials are mounted on the walls, some of which were formerly in the graveyard. One is dedicated to Mary Richards (d. 1767) and her husband William (d. 1780) of Energlyn. A stone tablet with an arched head in the NE corner is to Mary, wife of David Williams (d. 1745) and her son. A wooden tablet is to Mary, daughter of David Williams (d. 1837), who left £300 to the church.