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Former chapel and chapel house to Horeb Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in Cray (Crai), Powys

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.912 / 51°54'43"N

Longitude: -3.6156 / 3°36'56"W

OS Eastings: 288966

OS Northings: 224957

OS Grid: SN889249

Mapcode National: GBR YC.PRSW

Mapcode Global: VH5FL.86XK

Plus Code: 9C3RW96M+RQ

Entry Name: Former chapel and chapel house to Horeb Chapel

Listing Date: 25 May 2001

Last Amended: 25 May 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 25197

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Former Horeb Chapel

ID on this website: 300025197

Location: Situated on a minor road on the W side of Cwm Crai some 800m NW of Crai village.

County: Powys

Town: Brecon

Community: Cray (Crai)

Community: Cray

Locality: Cwm Crai

Traditional County: Brecknockshire

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History

Former Calvinistic Methodist chapel of about 1830 converted to vestry and schoolroom about 1899 when the new chapel was built with late C19 added chapel house, possibly of 1899.

Exterior

Former chapel and house, painted rubble stone with slate eaves roof and brick right end stack. Chapel to left has 2 big arched windows and one blocked door, to left. Windows have 24-pane glazing with Gothic intersecting bars in the heads and thick tooled stone sills. Late C19 brick-framed board door with 3-pane overlight to right. House has two-window range, 5-pane sashes above, C20 plastic door and window below. Brick surrounds. Chapel left end wall is hung with C20 asbestos slates.

Interior

Chapel interior stripped of fittings, late C19 dado boarding and fireplace. One rear gallery window.

Reasons for Listing

Included as an earlier C19 long-wall chapel with original small-paned glazing.

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