Llandinam English Presbyterian Church

Heritage listing

Reason for designation: Included as a well preserved and very successfully designed chapel, located near the centre of the village, with connections with the Davies family of Llandinam. History: Calvinistic Methodist chapel built in 1872-3 by Szlumper and Aldwinkle on land donated by the Crewe-Read family, with funds largely supplied by David Davies. The original rectangular building, with a schoolroom set across the rear, was successfully extended before 1896 by transepts to each side. Exterior: Built in a late French Gothic style (contemporary description), of rockfaced stone with limestone ashlar dressings, slate roof and clayware crestings. West front has 4 grouped lancets with moulded heads and columns, and a circular window with radial tracery above. Below the windows is an arcaded string course between the corner buttresses, which terminate in small pyramidal spires. Below the string, four quatrefoil windows. Nave windows altered. Transepts, which are lower, have elaborate dentilled cornices and triple lancets to the gables containing elaborately leaded glass. The school has varied stone-dressed windows, one blind on the S, 4-light to the N, and shouldered headed lights to the E. The main entrance to the church has a moulded arch on shafted columns with stiff-leaf capitals, and a floriated cross in the tympanum, all within a gabled porch. Interior: Nave of 3 bays, comprising a timber boarded roof on 2 moulded timber arches carried down to stilted wall stiff-leaf corbels. Moulded stone arches with huge fleurons, to side transepts. Walls plastered, with arches to low W windows.3 banks of raked seating divided by 2 aisles. High above the pulpit, a decorative arch above with blind 8-lobed wheel tracery and diapered tilework chamfered sill. The pulpit is of varnished

From Cadw under OGL v3.