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The Parish Church of St. Peter, in Pwllheli, Gwynedd. There was some function taking place within, so the externals only I was able to observe. It seemed fairly ordinary but for the number of gables it seemed to possess. With hindsight, this is unremarkable, but at the time I pondered it. A gable is the triangular ‘end’ of a building, formed by two intersecting roof slopes.

Downham Village Hall was once the village’s Methodist Chapel. It was constructed the same year as our chapel, 1817, though I find it rather more attractive with its central doorway and second tier of windows. It is clearly an establishment of proportion; its website states: