- Nprn: 11429
- Summary: Bethel Methodist Chapel (3) follows chapels built in 1821 and 1875 on a different site. This chapel was built in 1889 to the design of architect T.G. Williams of Liverpool. The original site of Bethel 2 was flooded to make way for Liverpool City's reservoir, Lake Vyrnwy. The plaque on the present chapel building reads: "Bethel/ Capel y Methodistiaid/ Calfinaidd - / Adeiladwyd 1874/ Symudwyd or Llan, Medi 1888/ Ail-adeiladwyd 1889/ TG Williams. Architect. Liverpool". Bethel (3) is built in the Gothic style with stone walls, a slate roof and a short-wall entry plan. The pointed ashlar doorways have dripstones and single wooden-boarded doors. The front gable has three ventilator slits in the apex, a large central three-light pointed window with intersecting tracery and circular foils. There is a narrow forecourt enclosed by dwarf stone walls with iron railings and gate. This chapel also has flanking contemporary stone houses (built by Liverpool Corporation?), the right hand house with an attached lean-to glazed shop extension currently in use as a RSPB shop/visitor centre.
RCAHMW, December 2010 - Description: The first & second chapels built in 1821 and 1875, the 1875 chapel to the design of The Reverend D.Williams of Mallwyd and with D Thomas as builder. Either the cause or the cause & Bethel 2 moved from the original site & rebuilt as Bethel 3, to design of T G Williams, architect of Liverpool. Gothic style, short-wall entry, via porches attched to lean-to aisles. Present status [1998]: other (visitor centre).
The first and second chapels built in 1821 & ca. 1875, the 1870s chapel to the design of The Reverend D. Williams of Mallwyd and built by D.Thomas of Dinas Mawddwy. Either the cause, or both the cause and Bethel 2, the 1870s chapel, were moved from the original site in 1888 and the chapel rebuilt in 1889 as Bethel 3, to the design of T G Williams, architect of Liverpool, the original site of Bethel 2 having been flooded to make way for Liverpool City's reservoir, Lake Vyrnwy. The plaque on the present chapel building reads: "Bethel/ Capel y Methodistiaid/ Calfinaidd - / Adeiladwyd 1874/ Symudwyd or Llan, Medi 1888/ Ail-adeiladwyd 1889/ TG Williams. Architect. Liverpool". Present, largely 1889, structure is a stone-built slate-roofed Gothic chapel, with lean-to aisles and with porches added to the front ends of the chapel aisles. Pointed ashlar doorways with dripstones and single wooden-boarded doors. Front gable with 3 ventilator slits in apex; large central 3-light pointed window with intersecting tracery & circular foils; flanking windows, as to side elevations, of 2-lights with Y-tracery. 3 similar 2-light windows to each return.
Slate path & flower bed in narrow forecourt strip, enclosed by dwarf stone wall with iron railings; stone, wall and gate, piers with pyramidal caps.
Flanking contemporary stone houses with gables (built by Liverpool Corporation?), the r.h. house with attached lean-to glazed shop extension for RSPB shop.
Status (2003): other (visitor centre).
O M Jenkins, 21/04/2004; visited briefly 06/01/2003. - Bethel 1 - Built: 1822 Source:Religious Census
- Rebuilt - Bethel 2: 1875 Source:
- Date Of Chapel: 1875 Source:
- Rebuilt - Bethel 3: 1889 Source:
- Architect: 1875 D. Williams, Mallwyd
- Builder: 1875 D. Thomas,
- Architect: 1889 T.G. Williams, Liverpool
- £ 1700: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 80: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 15: 1851 This entry applies to Bethel (1), NPRN 97184 (Religious Census)
- 15: 1851 This entry applies to Bethel (1), NPRN 97184 (Religious Census)
- 170: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Converted: 06/01/2003 RSPB Visitor Centre (Site visit - O M Jenkins)
- Materials
- Stone
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Gothic
- Plan: Short-wall 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