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Private Chapel at Plas-y-nant

A Grade II Listed Building in Betws Garmon, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0837 / 53°5'1"N

Longitude: -4.1655 / 4°9'55"W

OS Eastings: 255055

OS Northings: 356245

OS Grid: SH550562

Mapcode National: GBR 5N.9NML

Mapcode Global: WH54S.ZRLB

Plus Code: 9C5Q3RMM+FQ

Entry Name: Private Chapel at Plas-y-nant

Listing Date: 29 May 1968

Last Amended: 29 January 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3757

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300003757

Location: Set within the grounds of Plas-y-nant above the A 4085 with dense mainly coniferous planting nearby.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarfon

Community: Betws Garmon

Community: Betws Garmon

Locality: Coed Plas-y-nant

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Late C17 or early C18 barn and cowhouse converted into a private chapel by the gentrifying owners of Plas-y-nant in the late C19.

Exterior

Barn, converted into private chapel. Roughly coursed rubblestone with ashlar door and window dressings; slate roof with small round-arched bellcote to south-west gable end. Rectangular plan built into the side of a slope, apparently allowing space for a cowhouse beneath the original barn. Long (north-west) wall has 2 square-headed leaded windows with 4-centred arches and hollow spandrels; small gabled ventilator below ridge. Entrance in north-east gable end through plank door with fleur-de-lys strap hinges; window above. Round-arched window opening to south-west gable end has C20 window.

Interior

Original barn roof of 4 bays with 3 pegged A-frame trusses and triple purlins, sawn off at tie beam level, of which only the stubs survive. The roof is now boarded above the rafters; suspended timber floor across the former cowhouse. C19 stained glass in windows to north-west wall.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a substantial late C17 or early C18 barn and cowhouse given added historic interest by its conversion into a private chapel in the late C19.

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  • II Ystrad-uchaf
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  • II Snowdon Ranger Station
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  • II Betws Inn
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  • II Church of St Garmon
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