Former Penuel Chapel, Pentyrch, Cardiff

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.527 / 51°31'37"N

Longitude: -3.2972 / 3°17'49"W

OS Eastings: 310109

OS Northings: 181699

OS Grid: ST101816

Mapcode National: GBR HS.H1C2

Mapcode Global: VH6DY.SWS8

Plus Code: 9C3RGPG3+R4

Entry Name: Former Penuel Chapel

Listing Date: 31 January 2000

Last Amended: 31 January 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 22826

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Penuel Baptist Chapel

ID on this website: 300022826

Location: Just W of the village centre on higher ground, surrounded on 3 sides by graveyard.

County: Cardiff

Community: Pentyrch

Built-Up Area: Pentyrch

Traditional County: Glamorgan

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History

Dated 1837. Former Baptist Chapel. Alterations to fabric suggest some remodelling perhaps from an original long wall facade. Converted to house late C20.

Exterior

Small chapel of limewashed rubble with brick dressings to windows, Welsh slate roof with boarded eaves. Side elevation faces road with 3 long narrow round-headed sash windows with narrow glazing bars, multipane margin glazing, stone sills, ventilator grilles beneath; 2 smaller round-headed blocked windows also visible. At gable end W is a gabled porch with double doors in side walls and round headed window in gable; to main building similar round-headed windows to sides and smaller central window over porch, plaque above (currently removed) and blocked oculus in apex. Similar elevation facing graveyard shows some blocked features. Small single storey Sunday School/vestry wing to rear has doorway with voussoirs.

Interior

Interior under conversion; plan of W end open to roof and inserted floor at gallery level retaining cast iron piers.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a simple early C19 chapel retaining a largely unaltered exterior with tall round-headed windows.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Church of St Catwg
In the centre of Pentyrch village, on a sloping site.
II Lychgate at church of St Catwg
Forming the E entrance to the churchyard on Church Road.
II The King's Arms Public House
In the centre of Pentyrch village on rising ground just NE of the church, slightly set back from road.
II Horeb Presbyterian Church including attached hall to right
In the hamlet of Pen-y-garn NW of Pentyrch, on the hillside at the junction with Heol Goch, the road to Gwaeold-y-garth, and set in a walled graveyard.
II Lodge at Craig-y-parc
At the N entrance to the house and gardens of Craig-y-parc and reached by a lane leading from the Pentyrch road junction.
II Walls and gatepiers to courtyard entrance at Craig-y-parc
On the N side of Craig-y-parc house and enclosing the N courtyard of the house.
II* Craig-y-parc House
Set on the hillside SW of Pentyrch, within large grounds including woodland to W, the main frontage facing S over the Vale.
II* Loggia at Craig-y-parc and attached terrace walls and steps
Stands adjacent to the house to E, at the end of the top terrace facing W.

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Former Penuel Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in Pentyrch, Cardiff