- Nprn: 11547
- Summary: Sardis Baptist Chapel was built in in 1834 and rebuilt in 1905. The present chapel, dated 1905, is built in the Sub-Classical and Vernacular style with a gable entry plan and detached chapel house.
RCAHMW, January 2011 - Description: The Chapel was built in 1834, alterations 1906. Built in the sub-Classical and vernacular style, gable entry type. Status (1999): in chapel use. Art nouveau glass over door, timber ceiling, central rose.
A single storey Baptist chapel in a Classical style with adjacent detached chapel house. The chapel has a pitched slate roof with red ceramic ridge tiles and flate stone slab coping to both front and rear gables. The chapel is orientated east-west.
West front elevation - snecked effect masonry with quoining returned to pebbledashed side elevations. Classical triangular moulded pediment with centrally placed rectangular date stone, "SARDIS / 1834.1905". Moulded string course forming lower element of pediment returns to either side as slightly stressed, but plain cement render eaves band, that to the south has vertical false ashlar. Central entrance is flanked by 2 rectangular windows with 12 paned sashes, lime stone lintels and projecting freestone sills. Entrance lies within a rectangular recess with limestone lintel. Within recess is round headed freestone architrave with stressed keystone and chamfer rusticated vousoirs; tympanum contains 2 light fan in art neuveau style; below, separated by limestone lintel are 3-panelled double doors (bolection moulded and fielded) with 2-paned rectangular overlight, obscured glazing. Projecting plinth returned to sides and rear.
North, south and east elevations are pebble-dashed. The east/rear gable elevation is blank with a raking cement render cornice. Both south and north elevations have 3 rectangular window openings with projecting slate sills, those in the north are 12 paned sashes, while the south are fixed - 5 lights separated by horizontal glazing bars.
Interior: vestibule - full height with false ceiling of 3 rectangular T&G panels, central plaster roundel with acanthus leaf decoration. Cove frieze with incised dot and lozenge decoration. Plaster walls, moulded dado rail with T&G below. Floor of small diagonally laid quarry tiles. Opposing single doors lead to main body of chapel. Doors are of 4 panels, diagonal T&G with chamfered rails and muntins, moulded architraves are continuous with the dado rail. Small gate-leg table.
Main interior - panelled T&G ceiling of rectangular panels, two main panels contain central large round ornate plaster and iron ventilation grills with acanthus and other decoration. Plaster cove to sides, moulded cornice, plaster walls and moulded wood dado with vertical T&G below. All windows have sloping T&G sills and slightly splayed reveals with beaded chamfer at the junction with wall face. Windows to either side interrupt cornice. Junction between cove and the lintel soffit is chamfered where this occures. Internal round window in art neuveau style with round arched reveal in upper part of vestibule. Act of Parliament clock with scrolled brackets, below centre, " O.H. ROBERTS / AMLWCH". Slightly raked boarded floor. 2 aisles, central bank of benches has staggered divider. To either side of set fawr seating arranged longitudinally to face pulpit. Benches have rounded upper rail, vertical T&G backs and chamfered ends. Cupboard with 4-panelled door to right of set fawr in east wall, moulded architrave part of dado. To left of set fawr against east wall above old 2 pedal organ is wall-mounted "long case" clock, "OWEN OWENS AMLWCH".
Set fawr - 3 sided with rounded front corners, forward facing stepped entrances to either side. Integral internal seating, solid central desk with cupboard below with panelled double door. Plain acorn finials to turned end posts. Moulded upper rail with turned balustrade, T&G panelling below. Solid desk has upper panelling inplace of balustrade.
To either side of pulpit are round seated arm chairs.
Pulpit - opposing side entrances via flanking stair wings. Front of 3 bays, solid panelled, bolection moulding. Projecting moulded top rail. Each bay of 4 panels: 2 above, 2 below. Central bay projects forward and has brass plaque with inscription "GOSODWYD Y PLAT HWN I GOFIO CYFARFODYDD / DATHLU TRYDYDD JIWBILI AR HYDREF 26ain 1983". Returns of front bays are all 1 panel deep, of 2 panels one above the other. Raised central desk. Matching T&G minister's bench has bolection-panelled ends with hipped triangular top rail. Stair wings have curved bannisters, turned newel posts with plain acorn finials, turned open balustrade.
Reredos arch - plaster. Ornamented rounded arch with stressed foliated nowy-headed keystone. Supported on ionic pilasters which flank minister's bench. Dado returned around bases of pilasters to form plinth.
Cemetry to north of chapel - slate grave slabs, head stones and chest graves.
To the south of the chapel is the chapel house. Double fronted of snecked masonry with pebble-dashed gables under pitched slate roof with ceramic ridge tiles. 2 brick stacks with details picked out in yellow brick. Windows and doors have limestone lintels.
Chapel forecourt - rectangular, fronted by low rubble wall with freestone chamfered capping. Topped (now partly removed) by iron rails formed by interlinked elliptical hoops. Before chapel entrance are matching double gates supported by iron posts with ball finials. Cemetry surrounded by rubble wall, partly drystone. Limestone gate post, scroll decorated iron gate against angle of west and north facades of chapel.
GAT; visited 13/06/95
Stone-built chapel with rendered return walls. Window openings with reveals; rectangular windows with glazing bars. 3-bay side elevations. Gable façade (information from entry in the Welsh Office's provisional list for Twrcelyn R D, surveyed 03/1966).
The cause was established in 1835 and the church (chapel) was built in 1834; later alterations, for instance, of 1906 (Welsh Office Provisional List & date-stone). Status (1999): in Baptist use.
Rectangular single storey Renaissance style Baptist chapel with pitched slate roof, stone slab coping to both gable ends and ceramic ridge tiles. The chapel is orientated northwest-southeast, with its entrance in the north-west gable.
North-west front: rubble masory. Quoined corners. Classical style moulded stone pediment. At centre of pediment is rectangular limestone tablet - "SARDIS / 1834. 1905". Below plain pediment base is central rectangular lintelled recess containing two-paned lunette above limestone lintel over doorway with three-panelled double doors, and two-paned rectangular overtlight. Stressed roundheaded architrave with chamfered grooves indicating voussoirs and quoins. Stressed keystone. Rectangular recessed sash windows with limestone lintels and projecting freestone sills to either side of doorway. Low projecting plinth.
North-east elevation: pebble-dashed with 3 recessed windows; 12 paned sashes with projecting slate sills and cement rendered reveals. South-west elevation is the same except for cornice band with vertical false ashlar divisions, and windows having fixed glazing, each with horizontal glazing bars. South-east gable end plain pebble-dashed with cement rendered raking cornice strip, plinth returned from sides.
Chapel Interior: vestibule - upto ceiling height with false internal T&G ceiling of 3 panels with acanthus decorated plaster roundel in centre of middle panel. Wood cornice-cove with incised decoration above plaster walls with moulded dado and vertical T&G. Chequered quarry tile floor. Small gateleg table. Opposing side entrances to main body of chapel.
Main chapel - ornate rectangular recessed panelled T&G ceiling divided by moulded ribs. 2 central panels have foliated circular plaster roundels with recessed iron ventilation grills with central pendant. Outer curved plaster cove to cornice with dentil mouldings. Plaster walls with moulded dado and vertical T&G. Dado returned over doors to form architraves. All doors within chapel are four-panelled of diagonal T&G. Rectangular windows to sides and flanking vestibule break cornice and have chamfered lintels, slightly splayed reveals and sloping T&G sills to dado height. High in projecting vestibule set within roundheaded recess is round window with art nouveau style glazing.
2 aisles with gently raked boarded floor, 3 banks of T&G backed pews with chamfered ends. Central bank has staggered divider. Pews to either side of set fawr transversley arranged. Door to right of set fawr - cupboard.
Set fawr: situated against south-east wall. Rectangular with rounded front corners. Entrances to front at sides. Moulded upper rail and turned balustrade to front and sides, except for central desk with cupboard below - solid panelled front above plinth. Plain acorn finials to end posts.
Pulpit: solid panelled front of 3 bays, projecting central bay with slanted desk and brass plaque "GOSODWYD Y PLAT HWN I GOFIO CYFARFODYDD / DATHLU TRYDYDD JIWBILI AR HYDREF 26ain 1983". Opposing side entrances via straight stairs - curved moulded bannister, turned balustrade and newelposts. Plain acorn finials top newel posts. Minister's bench within recess of reredos. Reredos - painted wooden segmental arch, decorated with floral roundels, stressed nowy headed keystone. Arch is supported on plain pilasters with ionic capitals.
Clock in centre of vestibule wall "O.H. ROBERTS AMLWCH" - Act of Parliament clock with scrolled brackets. Another clock situated left of pulpit above old 2 pedal organ - small wall mounted case clock, "OWEN OWENS AMLWCH".
Cemetry to north-east, through iron gate.
Slate grave slabs and chest graves.
Chapel forcourt: fronted by low limestone block wall with chamfered freestone capping surmounted by railings with interlaced circular hoop decoration. Matching gates between pyramidal topped gate posts. Rubble walls to either side.
Chapel house, "Preswylfa", situated to the south-west of chapel. Double fronted with pitched slate roof. Snecked masonry. 2 gable-end stacks - brick with yellow brick quoining. Pebble-dashed gable ends. Limestone lintels.
Visited 13/06/95 - Alterations: 1906 Source:Welsh Office
- Built: 1834 Source:Welsh Office
- Cause: 1833 Source:Hughes, I
- Date Of Chapel: 1905 Source:Photo
- Rebuilt(1): 1905 Source:Plaque, style
- £ 100: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 180: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 193: 1999 (Hughes, I)
- Chapel: 1999 (I Hughes)
- Chapel: 2011 (I Hughes)
- Materials
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Storey: Single storey
- Style: Vernacular
- Plan: Gable Entry
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- Grid Reference: SH46728803
- Address: LLANWENLLWYFO,
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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