Capel Bethesda, Llanddyfnan, Isle of Anglesey

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3412 / 53°20'28"N

Longitude: -4.3001 / 4°18'0"W

OS Eastings: 246962

OS Northings: 385162

OS Grid: SH469851

Mapcode National: GBR HMRW.309

Mapcode Global: WH42F.X8HY

Plus Code: 9C5Q8MRX+FX

Entry Name: Capel Bethesda

Listing Date: 29 September 2000

Last Amended: 11 June 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 24031

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Bodafon Welsh Baptist Church

ID on this website: 300024031

Location: Situated on the N side of a minor road on Mynydd Bodafan some 2.5km SW of Brynrefail.

County: Isle of Anglesey

Community: Llanddyfnan

Locality: Mynydd Bodafan

Traditional County: Anglesey

Tagged with: Chapel

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History

1897 small chapel and house in line. A late example of the type retaining the characteristic elements of the region's agricultural settlement. Mynydd Bodafon is an area of scattered C19 settlement, mostly created by encroachment on what had been common land until the 1860s, and the chapel is important testimony to this small, informal rural settlement.

Exterior

House and chapel in line, plain roughcast with slate roof, gable end cappings. Chapel has 2 x 4-pane sashes on front and gabled porch with plain boarded door on end wall right. House to left has door under cambered head and 4-pane sash each floor; painted brickwork stack to left gable end. Small flat-roofed outshot to rear.
Enclosure wall to front in white-washed rubble with monlith gatepiers and double ironwork gates.

Interior

Simple interior without gallery but retaining painted dado with panelled pulpit platform and pews grouped around.

Reasons for Listing

Included as an unspoilt and dignified rural chapel of a once common type in the agricultural communities of Anglesey. The building retains the simple, traditional character of a chapel built to serve the former squatter settlement on Mynydd Bodafon.

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Capel Bethesda

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanddyfnan, Isle of Anglesey