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Sychnant Presbyterian Church and vestry

A Grade II Listed Building in St. Harmon (Saint Harmon), Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.3853 / 52°23'6"N

Longitude: -3.5088 / 3°30'31"W

OS Eastings: 297407

OS Northings: 277429

OS Grid: SN974774

Mapcode National: GBR 9J.QW6V

Mapcode Global: VH5CB.49DT

Plus Code: 9C4R9FPR+4F

Entry Name: Sychnant Presbyterian Church and vestry

Listing Date: 21 March 2000

Last Amended: 14 December 2004

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 23030

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Sychnant Chapel

ID on this website: 300023030

Location: Situated facing NE some 30m W of a junction of a minor road and the B4518 approximately 3km N of Pant-y-dwr.

County: Powys

Town: Rhayader

Community: St. Harmon (Saint Harmon)

Community: St. Harmon

Locality: Sychnant

Traditional County: Radnorshire

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History

Calvinistic Methodist chapel and attached vestry in single range, dated 1825. The interior would suggest a date between 1820 and 1850. Renovated 1929, the renovations presumably including the rendering of the front.

Exterior

Long range of chapel and vestry, unpainted stucco with right end slate-hung. Slate eaves roof with red and yellow brick chimney at left end. Chapel occupies about two thirds of facade, to right, with two large 30-pane sashes and two doors, all in plain raised surrounds. Pilaster strips each side, inlaid with dry-dash.
Vestry to left has similar pilaster at angle, one small centre small-paned casement pair above ground floor door and larger casement pair. Raised surrounds. The end wall has small-paned casement pair each floor to left. Rear has two horned 16-pane windows lighting chapel, to left.

Interior

Simple interior with pale painted graining to box pews in 3 blocks. Pews are raked with ramped ends, panelled backs and panelled doors. Similar panelled grained 3-sided set fawr enclosure with 2 pews each side facing pulpit. Side pews have high panelled back as draught screen against doors. Pulpit also painted grained and panelled has canted corners and simple moulded cornice. Door on right side. Plastered two-bay three-sided ceiling with central truss also plastered over.beam.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a well-preserved early C19 chapel with fine interior including painted box pews and original box-pulpit, the latter a rare survival.

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