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Capel Salem, Pwllheli, has the same name as Martin Top Chapel, but for its Welsh. It was originally built in 1862 for the Calvinistic Methodists, though it was expanded in 1893 and then rebuilt in 1915 after a thief in 1913 discovered nothing worth stealing so decided he would become an arsonist instead.

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: