- Nprn: 10437
- Summary: Carmel Methodist Chapel was built in 1903 in the Gothic style with a gable-entry plan and integral tower.
RCAHMW, September 2010
Planning permission was sought to turn this disused chapel into a licensed restaurant in 2006.
Wrexham Planning Office, 2006 - Description: Built in 1903. Built in the Gothic style, gable entry type. A prominent feature of this Chapel is the integral tower. Present status [1976]: chapel This chapel replaced NPRN12906 (See o.s. 6-inch Maps (1877 and 1901)
Carmel
High St Abertillery
Dissused, external access only.
Gothic revival style chapel, main façade faces the High St - other external elevations not visible.
Recangular form with gabled roof. Built on slope down to W.
Main façade - N. gable-end. Dressed-stone, neatly coursed walling. Good quality dressed-stone quoining with concave moulded returns and jambs.
Window openings - cusped heads with stained glass leaded-lights of foliated design.
3 tier façade - basement, ground-floor and gable area. Tower at the W. side of the façade.
Main E. facing door-way is located in a rectangular porch with a flat headed opening, approximately central on the ground-floor - reached by 6 steps from the east.
6 panel, modern hard-wood door. Decorated iron gate and rail next to street.
'Carmel' name in stone above the opening. The
porch has a flat roof with a battlement.
N. wall of porch has twin small lancet type windows with cusped heads. Two single windows are located at the N. side of the façade.
There is a large window above the porch with a 4 centred arched head and perpendicular tracery.
W. tower - Square with narrow louvers and embattlements at the top with a moulded string course just below. On the N. & E. sides there is a small lancet window with a circular quatrefoil window above.
In the basement part of the tower there is a small door opening with a flat head and a 4 panelled door.
Below the porch there is an infilled 4 light window with stone mullions and transoms. - Built: 1903 Source:RCCEORBWM
- Date Of Chapel: 1903 Source:
- Built: 1907 Source:BOW
- £ 75: 1903 Cost of 1903 improvements (RCCEORBWM)
- £ 5000: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 300: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: ()
- Other: 2006 Proposed conversion to a licensed restaurant. (Wrexham Planning Office)
- Materials
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Documents
- Style: Gothic
- Plan: Gable Entry
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Map
- Grid Reference: SO21680405
- Address: HIGH STREET, ABERTILLERYAbertillery
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Posted on Facebook 22/04/2015 by Blaenau Gwent Access to Heritage Project
Carmel Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, High Street, Abertillery. One of the last tangible links with Abertillery’s once-vibrant, Welsh-speaking community will disappear soon. The derelict, Carmel Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel on the High Street in Abertillery is being demolished to make way for a car park as part of a town regeneration scheme. Carmel was first established in the late 19th century when Abertillery was expanding rapidly as a town owing to the expansion of coal mining in the area. Up until the mid 19th century, Abertillery was still a largely rural area but all was to change in the closing decades of the century and in the period up to the First World War; by 1920 Abertillery had grown to become the largest town in Monmouthshire bar Newport. The influx of collier migrants into the area was to change the linguistic balance of the area forever. There were Welsh-speaking migrants of course and many of Carmel’s deacons hailed from Cardiganshire but English migrants were in the majority; many drawn to the collieries of Monmouthshire from the Somerset coalfield in particular. Much chapel building and enlargement of existing places of worship in Abertillery took place in the wake of the great religious revival of 1905, which gripped Abertillery to a degree seen in few other places in Wales. It was during this time that Carmel was enlarged and redesigned with its Gothic tower becoming an integral and recognisable part of Abertillery’s townscape for over a century. The rebuilding was overseen by architects, Habershon and Fawckner, who were responsible for many non-conformist chapels across south Wales.
Hello
My great great grandparents were married in Kinnerton Chapel in Old Radnor on 21st May1850. I have been searching for information on the Chapel, so was pleased to find this website. I have now located it on Google Street View – looks like someone is ‘doing it up’ to live in: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.2612635,-3.1095337,3a,90y,232.95h,84.26t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1s-8DWPORkq2RFVNXBLde_-g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i53?hl=en-GB
The marriage record of my ancestors Abraham Bounds and Elizabeth Williams is attached. I hope it is of interest.
All the best
Saira
Dear Sara
Thank you for the information. I am glad to hear that it was some help to you.
Good luck on your continued search
Christine