- Nprn: 13970
- Cadw Ref: 1 A
- Cadw Record No: 13127
- Summary: Bethania Methodist Chapel was built in 1908 and designed by the architect Rhys Samuel Griffiths, at an original cost of £4500. This chapel is built in the Classical style, with a gable entry plan, rubble stone walls rendered with a cement plast. and a Welsh slate roof. The gable facade has been subject to extensive repair and renovation work costing c.£30,000. In 2010 this building stood vacant awaiting planning permission for a domestic conversion. Bethania is Grade 2 Listed as an almost unaltered chapel with a richly furnished interior and as the major surviving work of the Tonypandy architect R.S. Griffiths.
RCAHMW, May 2012 - Description: Built in 1908 in the Classical style, gable entry type. See Site Files [Ecclesiastical] for photos. Present status [2002]: Chapel Planning application was received in 2010 to convert the chapel into a dwelling,
LBC, 2010
Construction details - Main wall of building, side elevation & gable (rear) and vestry are of rubble stone walling rendered over with a cement plaster facing. Gable façade is a mixture of pennant & bathstone. The bathstone outlining windows, arches, quoins & doorways in a classical style in filled spaces are in pennant. Roof of timber framing clad in Welsh slate.
Gable façade been subject of extensive repairs & renovation costing approx œ30,000. Pipe organ originally from Moriah WCM at Ynyshir, now closed. Notes from I D Jones 20.07.98. - Dated: 1908 Source:Cadw (1991; plaque)
- Dated: 1908 Source:Cadw (plaque)
- Built: 1909 Source:Site visit I D Jones
- Built: 1908 Source:Plaque
- Date Of Chapel: 1908 Source:
- Organ Fr. Capel Moriah: 1983 Source:Cadw (1991 & 1996)
- Architect: 1908 Rhys Samuel Griffiths, Tonypandy
- Architect: 1908 Rhys Samuel Griffiths, Tonypandy
- Architect: 1908 Rhys Samuel Griffiths, Tonypandy
- £ 2000: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- £ 4500: 1908 (Cadw)
- 500: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 20/07/1998 (Site visit - I D Jones)
- Disused: 2010 Proposed conversion into single dwelling (LBC)
- Welsh: 1994 (MGCS)
- Welsh: 20/07/1998 (Site visit - I D Jones)
- Materials
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Classical
- Gallery: On Three Sides
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Pulpit Position: Rear Wall
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Map
- Grid Reference: SS99269281
- Address: CHURCH STREET, TONYPANDY; CHURCH STREET,LLWYNYPIA, TONYPANDYTONYPANDY
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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