- Nprn: 10963
- Cadw Ref: AF 5(9)
- Cadw Record No: 5940
- Summary: Carew English Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built in 1816 and rebuilt in 1852. The chapel stands within a walled and gated burial ground in Carew village (NPRN 268031). A Sunday School wing was added in 1883. The chapel itself is a Neo-Classical building facing west towards the public road. It presents a two storey rendered facade under a large pediment in anticipation of a gallery that was never built. The ground floor is rusticated with a central doorway and two windows. The first floor has three windows. All openings have round arches with gothic glazing in the windows. In the pediment is an oval plaque bearing the words : 'WESLEY CHAPEL1852'. Carew is now Grade 2 Listed as a fine rural chapel.
RCAHMW, October 2010 - Description: The chapel was built in 1816; it was rebuilt in 1852 as the present single-storey, gable facade chapel. The Sunday School was added in 1883. Status (2000): chapel
Rendered stone/slate with original fenest with interlaced glazing bars in sub classic façade. Oval tablet, 6 panel door. Rusticated below 1st floor level. Within walled and gated graveyard. 1993 PCNPA.
Typical "pebble-dash" gable-end façade chapel with pediment and symmetrically spaced out matching windows and doors. Eliptical plaque and pediment. Courtyard to front. Noted: 'Southwest Wales' Shell Guide, Rees Interior is good but surprising as this is a one story chapel obviously built with the erection of a gallery borne in mind. No sloping floor or 'rising gallery'. (Anthony Jones)
The cause met initially from 1763 in houses in Carew (Cadw); a meeting house - in a barn? - was established in 1813 (Cadw) and a chapel was built in 1816 (1851 R. Census); it was [re]built in 1852 (Welsh Office, PCNPA) as the present single-storey, gable façade chapel, with its internal seating dating from the early C20 (Cadw). The Sunday School was added in 1883. Status (2000): in Methodist use.
This English Wesleyan Methodist chapel stands within a walled and gated burial ground in Carew village (NPRN 268031). The present building is dated 1852, but may have replaced an earlier chapel. A Sunday School wing was added in 1883.
Following Wesley's visit in 1763 there was an active Methodist congregation in the village. They came to meet in a barn north of the Carew River, at SN04920395, and this may be the meeting house said to have been established in 1813. A chapel is said to have been established in 1816 and this could also have been the barn if not the present chapel site. The barn is shown as a Sunday School on the 1st edition OS County series (Pembroke. XL.4 1865), but not on the 2nd edition of 1907 when the Sunday School wing had been added to the chapel.
The chapel is a neo-classical building facing west towards the public road. It presents a two storey rendered facade under a large pediment in anticipation of a gallery that was never built. The ground floor is rusticated with a central doorway and two windows. The first floor has three windows. All openings have round arches with gothic glazing in the windows. In the pediment is an oval plaque bearing the words;
'WESLEY CHAPEL 1852'
Source: CADW Listed Buildings Database (5940)
John Wiles 14.01.08 - Built: 1816 Source:Religious Census
- Built: 1852 Source:PCNPA
- Built: 1852 Source:Welsh Office
- Dated: 1852 Source:Pevsner
- Built: 1852 Source:Anthony Jones
- Met In Carew Houses: Post 1763 Source:Cadw
- Date Of Chapel: 1852 Source:Cadw (plaque)
- Pews: 1920A Source:Cadw
- Meeting Hse: In Barn?: 1813 Source:Cadw
- Sunday School Built: 1883 Source:
- Sunday School: 1883 Source:Cadw
- £ 412: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 108: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 134: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 36: 1851 (Religious Census)
- Chapel: 2000 (S Wales District Ch. list)
- Chapel: 2010 (R Scourfield)
- English: 2000 (S Wales District Ch. list)
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- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Simple Round-Headed
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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