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CAPEL BLAENCARON
Calvinistic Methodist (Presbyterian Church of Wales) / Methodistiaid Calfinaidd (Eglwys Bresbyteraidd Cymru)
What: Calvinistic Methodist chapel and adjoining parsonage
Where: Tregaron, Ceredigion
Built: Unknown
Abandoned: c.2003
Listed: No.
Visited: 2006
Last Known Condition: Converted to private dwelling(s), 2009.
Page Updated: February 2011
On a dead-end mountain road near Tregaron there stands a disused Calvinistic Methodist chapel,
its door screwed shut, its high arched windows holed and its whitewashed walls grimed and mottled by the weather.
A small parsonage, also disused, adjoins the chapel on the east wall. On one wall of the chapel is a slate plaque,
in Welsh, commemorating the local school inspector and
writer, Cassie Davies:
CASSIE DAVIES
1898 CAETUDUR 1988
BLAENOR YM MLAENCARON AC
AROLYGWR YSGOLION CYMRU
BU'N HWB I'W BRO A'I GWLAD
Gosodwyd gan Gangen Plaid Cymru
Tregaron a'r cylch.
| CASSIE DAVIES
1898 CAETUDUR 1988
ELDER IN BLAENCARON AND
INSPECTOR OF WELSH SCHOOLS.
SHE WORKED FOR COMMUNITY AND COUNTRY
Installed by Plaid Cymru
Tregaron and district branch | |
Several broken windows
show the interior of the chapel to be typically plain, with rows of enclosed
pine pews and a central pulpit standing on a dais at the east end.
The parsonage is a small house with two rooms downstairs which served as kitchen and dining room respectively and one
upstairs which was the bedroom. There is no bath or indoor toilet.
EPILOGUE
Capel Blaencaron was auctioned in 2008 and is currently (2009) being converted and extended to become a private dwelling. Pictures from Google Streetview.
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