- Nprn: 11674
- Summary: This site is believed to have once been the Friends Meeting House associated with the adjoining Quaker Gardens and Burial Site (NPRN 265561). The meeting house is likely to have comprised part of the old building range attached to what is now Esgair Goch farmhouse. Both the meeting house and the adjoining house were stone-built with stone tile roof, and were in existence by the eighteenth century, with later additions and alterations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The meeting house is reported to have been converted to a cattle store in the nineteenth century.
RCAHMW, November 2008 - Description: The graveyard was founded in 1711. Present status [1998]: disused but retained.
The graveyard is on the hillside just above Esgair Goch farmyard: there are low trees and some low walling and the site is marked by an early-C20? Iron plaque, inscribed "Friends'? Burial Ground 171?0".
The former meeting house is thought to comprise part of the old outbuilding range attached to what is now Esgair Goch farmhouse; stone-built, both meeting house & adjoining house formerly with stone tile roofs. Meeting house apparently converted to cattle store in C19, its NE. end gable with centre ground-floor & loft doorways; C19/ earlier-C20 windows & door in SE. elevation adjoining rear elevation of present farmhouse. Interior of old meeting house with large ceiling beams (briefly visited by O M Jenkins, RCAHMW, 21/11/2002). - Repairs: 1826 Source:Butler, D M
- Additions & Alterations: 1800-1899 Source:Deduction
- Meeting House Built: 1725 Source:Butler, D M
- Graveyard Founded: 1711 Source:Plaque
- Meeting Discontinued: 1812 Source:Butler, D M
- Farm Outbuilding: By 1910 Source:Butler, D M
- Date Of Chapel: 1725 Source:Deduction
- Converted: 21/11/2002 Cattle store with C19 fittings/ Adjoining house now rear part of farm house (Site visit - O M Jenkins)
- Materials
- Stone
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Mixed
Key Details of this Chapel
Key Dates of this Chapel
Changes of Status its History
Key Characteristics of this Chapel
Images from Coflein
Map
- Grid Reference: SN88939250
- Address: ESGAIR-GOCH FARM, STAYLITTLE
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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