- Nprn: 10940
- Cadw Ref: (WO)5/122
- Cadw Record No: 12365
- Summary: Pentour Methodist is a long-wall chapel originating in 1759, rebuilt in 1788, 1806 and again in 1824. In 1889 the chapel was remodelled for £1200 by architect D E Thomas of Haverfordwest, in conjunction with the Tenby based builder William Davies, and a schoolroom added in 1890 by Thomas Harries of Trellan. Early ministers included John Dafydd (1765), Thomas Davies (1790) and David Jones (1794). By 1802 the membership was recorded as 80, during that year the chapel was granted the right to hold baptistism and communion services and by 1810 membership had risen to 200. During the revival in 1859 30 new members are recorded, but when Philip Jones started as minister in 1886 members are recorded at 100. In 1901 a cemetary was bought and four years later a manse was constructed on land donated by D Jones, a future MP for the county. During the period 1917-1938 J T Job was minister, who as a poet won Chair at the National Eisteddfod in 1897,1903 and 1918 and the Crown in 1900.
The stuccoed front facade is lateral entry and the two end doors hidden by porches linked by a verandah supported by two cast iron columns. A central pair of round-headed windows with Florentine tracery is matched by a single gallery window over each porch, and a small glazed, roundel is set above the pair. The interior escaped re-orientation during the 1889 renovation, the pulpit is still to the front wall, although now with a later organ inserted behind it and blocking the central pair of windows. The three sided gallery is of pitch pine with pierced cast iron panels inset to the front and supported by cast iron columns. To the front of the chapl has a narrow courtyard separated from the road by a low stuccoed wall set with cast iron railings.
Pentour is now Grade 2 Listed
RCAHMW, July 2010 - Description: Rendered stone/slated. Lateral entry. Primitive facade with elaborate details, 2 boxy porches added with 3 bay verandah on iron columns. Ornate railings and gates to front. 1993 PCNPA.
A side-wall chapel of 1824, re-worked and largely rebuilt in 1899-90 by Wm. Davies. Built in the Sub-Classical style, long-wall entry type. Status (2000): in chapel use.
Chapel historical booklet shows photographs of the old sidewall façade chapel before Wm. Davies reworked the façade and added porches.
"y Drysorfa", Jan 1890:
"The chapel has been renewed and to every purpose is a new chapel, and in truth is a beautiful and notable building convenient for listerning".
It appears that the 1824 chapel survived until Davies work in 1899, a rather long time span. He added double flat roofed porches to right and left at the ground floor and spanned between them with a slate roof held up by cast-iron columns. The? Large pair of central windows. Very emphatic mouldings, flat pilasters, keystones, coloured glass. Circular window retained between central windows. Dentilled architrave, dwarf courtyard. Plaque removed from upper façade and placed in porch. (Anthony Jones)
A side-wall chapel of 1824, re-worked and largely rebuilt in 1899-90 by Wm. Davies (Y Drysorfa, January 1890, and A Jones). Status (2000): in chapel use. - Restored: 1800 Source:PCNPA
- Restored: 1788 Source:PCNPA
- Restored: 1828 Source:PCNPA
- Restored: 1889 Source:PCNPA
- Built: 1759 Source:PCNPA
- Dated: 1759 Source:Welsh Office (plaque
- Built: 1759 Source:Anthony Jones
- Built: 1759 Source:Religious Census
- Date Of Chapel: 1889 Source:Welsh Office (plaque
- Extended: 1806 Source:Welsh Office (plaque
- Extended: 1884 Source:Welsh Office (plaque
- Extended: 1788 Source:Welsh Office (plaque
- Renewed: 1889 Source:Anthony Jones
- Rebuilt: 1806 Source:Anthony Jones
- Rebuilt: 1824 Source:Anthony Jones
- Rebuilt: 1889 Source:BOW
- House: 1899 Source:A Jones index
- Builder: 1889 William Davies, Tenby
- Architect: 1889 David Edward Thomas, Haverfordwest
- Builder: 1899 William Davies, Tenby
- £ 400: 1905 Schoolroom (RCCEORBWM)
- £ 2200: 1905 Chapel (RCCEORBWM)
- £ 1200: 1889 Renewed (Anthony Jones)
- 372: 1851 Standing (Religious Census)
- 544: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 231: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 200: 1905 Accomodation (RCCEORBWM)
- 400: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 2000 (Blwyddiadur)
- Chapel: 2010 (Site Visit - SF)
- Welsh: ()
- Materials
- Rendered
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Storey: Two Storey
- Style: Sub Classical
- Gallery: On Three Sides
- Plan: Long-wall entry
- Pulpit Position: Front Wall
- Window Glazing: Florentine Tracery
- Windows: Round-Headed
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Images from Coflein
Map
- Grid Reference: SM96023706
- Address: TOWER HILL, FISHGUARDFISHGUARD
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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