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Capel Cwrt, Llangeinwen

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NPRN43593
Map ReferenceSH46SE
Grid ReferenceSH4583064930
Unitary (Local) AuthorityIsle of Anglesey
Old CountyAnglesey
CommunityRhosyr
Type Of SiteCHAPEL
PeriodPost Medieval
Description

Capel Cwrt, Llangeinwen, is a former a chapel, incorporating a church floor of probable seventeenth century date. It has arched-braced trusses, a wood vaulted ceiling, and date stones of 1686 and 1706. It is now part of a farmhouse.

There are documentary references to post-Reformation painted texts and figures, including the Decalogue in English on the east wall and Time and Death.

Sources include:
A.C.1847,41; Lewis 1833.
RCAHMW Wallpaintings database. 2004.09.08/RCAHMW/SLE
Richard Suggett, Painted Temples: Wallpaintings and Rood-screens in Welsh Churches, 1200–1800, (RCAHMW 2021)

RCAHMW 2022