- Nprn: 11465
- Summary: Pontrobert Methodist Chapel was first built in 1814 but this was sold and a new chapel built on the present site in 1871. This chapel is brick built in the Simple Gothic style with buff brick quoins and dressings and a gable entry plan. It is set on a grassy bank above the road and is enclosed by a stone rubble retaining wall with an iron gate. The entrance is a round-arched doorway with traceried fanlight and wooden-boarded doors in a gabled porch with side buttresses. Above the porch is a circular wheel window and on both sides are flanking pointed windows with Y-tracery and margin panes. The bargeboard has pierced decoration and the slate roof has grey crest tiles. There are two similar windows in the rear gable and three similar, but shorter, windows in each side wall. A twentieth century slate plaque to the right of the entrance porch reads "Addoldy eglwys/ Fethodistaid/ Pontrobert/ 1871-1971". Inside the chapel has a vertically-boarded dado, above which are cream-painted plaster walls with stencil motifs. The plaster ceiling has three nineteenth century roses or vents, and partly sloping sides. There are two side blocks and one paired centre block of late-nineteenth century open bench seats.
RCAHMW, December 2010 - Description: Built in 1814, rebuilt 1870. Built in the Simple Gothic style, gable entry type. Present status [2002]: Chapel. See NMRW d/base entry
The first Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was in Meifod was built in 1814. This was sold and a new chapel built on the present site around 1870-1. It is a red brick structure with buff brick quoins and dressings, with its entrance in the gable end. It is set on a grassy bank above the road and is enclosed by a stone rubble retaining wall with an iron gate in Gothic style.
The entrance is a round-arched doorway with traceried fanlight and wooden-boarded doors in a gabled porch with side buttresses. Above the porch is a circular wheel window and on both sides are flanking pointed windows with Y-tracery and margin panes. The bargeboard has pierced decoration and the slate roof has grey crest tiles. There are two similar windows in the rear gable and three similar, but shorter, windows in each side wall. A twentieth century slate plaque to the right of the entrance porch reads "Addoldy eglwys/ Fethodistaid/ Pontrobert/ 1871-1971".
Inside the internal lobby projects into the chapel which has a vertically-boarded dado, above which are cream-painted plaster walls with stencil motifs. The plaster ceiling is partly flat with three nineteenth century roses or vents, and partly with sloping sides. For seating there are two side blocks and one paired centre block of late-nineteenth century open bench seats. These originally would have had doors.
In n2002 it was still in use as a chapel.
O M Jenkins, RCAHMW, 26 April 2004 - Built: 1814 Source:Religious Census
- Rebuilt: 1870 Source:
- Date Of Chapel: 1870 Source:
- £ 400: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 66: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 40: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 160: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 07/2011 Dwelling (R scourfield)
- Materials
- Brick
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Simple Gothic
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Window Glazing: "Y" Glazing
- 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