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Cana Chapel/Capel Cana including forecourt walls, railings and gates

A Grade II Listed Building in Nevern, Pembrokeshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.017 / 52°1'1"N

Longitude: -4.7695 / 4°46'10"W

OS Eastings: 210050

OS Northings: 239017

OS Grid: SN100390

Mapcode National: GBR CV.H1M5

Mapcode Global: VH2N0.8KWM

Plus Code: 9C4Q268J+Q5

Entry Name: Cana Chapel/Capel Cana including forecourt walls, railings and gates

Listing Date: 27 October 1992

Last Amended: 27 October 1992

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 12764

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Cana Chapel/Capel Cana

ID on this website: 300012764

Location: Situated by roadside in village centre, set back behind railed forecourt.

County: Pembrokeshire

Community: Nevern (Nanhyfer)

Community: Nevern

Locality: Felindre Farchog

Traditional County: Pembrokeshire

Tagged with: Chapel

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Exterior

1856-7 Independent Chapel in squared rubble stone with slate roof and bracketted eaves to sides. End facade to road, probably originally with bracketted gable or open pediment (since cut back) two long arched windows with 50-pane sashes and intersecting glazing bars at heads; centre plaque 'Cana. Indpendents. Built 1857. Rev E.Lewis Minister.' over arched doorway. Arches are all of painted cut stone, windows have slate sills and doorway has matching intersecting bars to fanlight and double panelled doors. Two-storey two-window sides with 16-pane sashes and stone voussoirs. Two long end windows.

Forecourt wall to road has four rubble stone piers with concave pyramid coping and ball finials. Centre iron gates, low outer slate-coped walls with matching iron railings.

Interior

Three-sided gallery on marbled timber columns, panelled gallery front and plain box pews. Panelled pulpit.

Reasons for Listing

Chapel is stylistically similar to Penuel Cemaes Baptist 1860 and Glanrhyd Chapel, Llantood 1870.

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