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Capel Peniel, with adjoining manse and forecourt railings

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanbedrog, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.8583 / 52°51'30"N

Longitude: -4.4941 / 4°29'38"W

OS Eastings: 232175

OS Northings: 331897

OS Grid: SH321318

Mapcode National: GBR 57.RSX7

Mapcode Global: WH44N.YF32

Plus Code: 9C4QVG54+88

Entry Name: Capel Peniel, with adjoining manse and forecourt railings

Listing Date: 8 March 1999

Last Amended: 8 March 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 21434

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Llanbedrog Chapel

ID on this website: 300021434

Location: The chapel stands back from the road at the top of a sloping forecourt, bound on both sides by buildings.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Pwllheli

Community: Llanbedrog

Community: Llanbedrog

Built-Up Area: Llanbedrog

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

The chapel was built in 1866 for the Calvinistic Methodist community of Llanbedrog.

Exterior

Built of coursed rubble, with a slate roof. Wide gabled front with a slightly recessed central arch feature containing two attenuated 12-pane round-headed timber windows, the head of each containing intersecting glazing bars. Above, a circular slate panel engraved with the name 1866 / PENIEL. To either side framed and boarded doors, each with a round-headed fanlight with similar Regency Gothic detail. Projecting bargeboards fixed to 4 projecting purlins each side. The side has 5 similar round-headed windows with stressed keystones. Rendered at the rear, the windows replaced.

Attached to the right, the chapel house. Irregular rubble stonework with a slated roof. Two storeys, 3 closely spaced windows. Central part-glazed door and modern uPVC windows.

The generous-scaled gravelled forecourt slopes down from the chapel and is defined by trefoil-headed cast iron railings set on dwarf stone walls. At the lower end, 3 slender stone piers with large caps.

Interior

Plain interior, with plastered walls, a boarded dado and boarded ceiling, coved around all sides. The pulpit is set between the entrance door lobbies, within a gallery topped set fawr, and is raised over steps. The pews are set in 4 banks, each of 18 places across, with two aisles. Clock by John Edwards of Llanbedrog, 1903, and a 1914-1918 brass memorial.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a mid C19 chapel designed still within the late Georgian tradition, of generous proportions, which, with its attached house, school and forecourt walls, forms a focal point in the quasi-urban development of upper Llanbedrog.

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