- Nprn: 11422
- Summary: Salem Chapel was first built in 1839 and subsequently enlarged in 1862. The present chapel dates from 1903 and is a red-brick gable entry chapel with an attached, contemporary red-brick chapel house, set back on the right hand side. It has a 3-bay simple Gothic gable-entry facade with buttresses, crowning finial and narrow triple vent slits in the apex. The right hand pointed doorway has a wooden door with ornate hinges. On the centre pointed window, the original tracery is no longer extant. There is a left hand lancet. A stone plaque beneath the centre window is inscribed: "Salem/ Calvinistic/ Methodist Chapel/ 1903 - T Ridge Architect/ R A Jones Builder". A further plaque leaning against the base of the front wall is inscribed: "Salem/ gan y Trefnyddion Calfinaidd/ Adeiladwyd AD 1839 / Enlarged 1862/ Rebuilt 1903". The chapel and house are enclosed at the front by a brick dwarf wall with rounded stone coping and low square-panel iron railings.
RCAHMW, December 2010 - Description: Built in 1839. Present status [1998]: unknown
First built in 1839; enlarged 1862; present chapel dates from 1903, to design of T Ridge, architect. Red-brick gable entry chapel with attached & contemporary, red-brick chapel house, set back on r.h.. 3-bay simple Gothic gable-entry facade with buttresses, crowning finial, and narrow triple vent slits in apex; r.h. pointed doorway with wooden door with ornate hinges; centre pointed window, the original tracery no longer extant; l.h. lancet. Stone plaque beneath centre window is inscribed: "Salem/ Calvinistic/ Methodist Chapel/ 1903 - T Ridge Architect/ R A Jones Builder"; further plaque leaning against base of front wall is inscribed: "Salem/ gan y Trefnyddion Calfinaidd/ Adeiladwyd AD 18?39 .... Enlarged 1862/ Rebuilt 1903".
Flat-headed window openings with ashlar lintels in return, 3 to l.h. and one to r.h., from where also 2-storey chapel house projects, its front elevation with simple Gothic pointed openings on ground floor and flat-arched openings under ashlar lintels above; paired lancet in l.h. bay and with pointed doorway in narrower set-back bay on r.h.
Chapel & house enclosed at front by brick dwarf wall with rounded stone coping, and low, square-panel iron railings.
O M Jenkins, 20/04/2004; visited briefly 21/01/2003. - Built: 1839 Source:
- Enlarged: 1862 Source:
- Rebuilt: 1903 Source:
- Date Of Chapel: 1903 Source:
- Architect: 1862 T. Ridge,
- Builder: 1862 R. A. Jones,
- £ 850: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 135: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 21/01/2003 (Site visit - O M Jenkins)
- Materials
- Brick
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Documents
- Style: Simple Gothic
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Window Glazing: Leaded
- Windows: Gothic
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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