Ty'n-y-coed Independent Chapel, Ynyswen (Abercrâf), Breconshire

Description

Name: Ty'n-y-coed

Denomination: Independent

Built: 1774
Rebuilt: 1829

Photography (exterior): John Ball
Date: 18 March 2007
Camera: Nikon D50 digital SLR

Photography (interior): Sian Moran
Date: 1 January 2012
Camera: Samsung SL102 digital

Note 1: Tyn-y-Coed Chapel was built in 1756 [sic] in the Simple Round-Headed style with a hipped box roof. [Source: Coflein database of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (accessed 22 September 2015)]

Note 2: [Built] 1829. Set in a large graveyard full of rustically classical C19 memorials. Square plan, with hipped roof on deep eaves. Three-bay front with tall flanking round-arched windows. The interior is of c. 1880. The three-sided gallery with long panels of pretty cast-ironwork divided by fluted pilaster strips. Pulpit to rear. Could this refitting be by the Rev Thomas Thomas? [Source: The Buildings of Wales: Powys, by Robert Scourfield and Richard Haslam, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2013]

• http://www.jlb2011.co.uk/walespic/churches/ynyswen1.htm (link opens in new window)