- Nprn: 11455
- Summary: Seion Independent Chapel was first built in 1829, on a different site and is now converted into a domestic dwelling. This was replaced in 1891 by a new chapel built in the Simple Round-Headed style with a gable entry plan. It has red brick walls with buff and vitreous brick dressings. The slate roof has red tile creasting and end finials and the round-headed window openings have windows with nineteenth century glazing bars. The entrance is via the front gable, with a porch and small round-arched doorway and wooden boarded door. There are tall flanking windows and a central plaque inscribed: "Sion Addoldy/ yr Annibynwyr/ 1891". Inside the chapel has a pannelled lobby and the main chapel has a vertically-boarded dado and painted plaster walls. The ceiling, also of painted plaster, is in two bays with two ceiling roses. The pulpit has flanking steps and is decorated with gothic motifs. There are two gas lamps on the pulpit wall, the baluster front is turned to the set fawr and the chapel has a harmonium. The late nineteenth century open-bench seats include single blocks of side seats, seven on the left hand side and six on the right hand, and a wider single block of six centre seats.
RCAHMW, December 2010 - Description: Built in 1829 with rebuilds and modifications 1842 and 1891. Built in the Simple Round-Headed style, gable entry type. Present status [1998]: Chapel. See entry in NMRW d/base.
Seion Chapel was first built in 1829 on a different site now converted into a domestic dwelling. Renovations to the first chapel were carried out in 1843, but it was replaced in 1891 by a new building of red brick with buff and vitreous brick dressings. The slate roof has red tile creasting and end finials and the round-headed window openings have windows with nineteenth century glazing bars. The entrance is via the front gable, which has a porch and small round-arched doorway with a wooden boarded door. There are tall flanking windows and a central plaque inscribed: "Sion Addoldy/ yr Annibynwyr/ 1891". There are two windows in each of the side walls with intermediate buttresses.The rear gable has no windows.
Inside, the entrance lobby is panelled. The rest has a vertically-boarded dado and painted plaster walls. The ceiling, also of painted plaster, is in two bays with two ceiling roses. The pulpit has flanking steps and is decorated with gothic motifs. There are two gas lamps on the pulpit wall. The baluster front is turned to the set fawr. The late nineteenth century open-bench seats include single blocks of side seats, 7 on the left hand side and six on the right hand, and there is a wider single block of six centre seats. A harmonium is the principal music feature.
In 2002 it was still in use as a chapel.
O M Jenkins, RCAHMW, 26 April 2004 - Dated: 1891 Source:Plaque
- Date Of Chapel: 1891 Source:Capel Questionnaire
- £ 300: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 140: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 1998 (Blwyddiadur)
- Chapel: 07/2011 (R Scourfield)
- Materials
- Brick
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Simple Round-Headed
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Window Glazing: Small Pane
- Windows: 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