- Nprn: 6151
- Cadw Record No: 21371
- Summary: Siloam Baptist Chapel was built in 1823 and rebuilt in 1857 in the Simple Round-Headed style with a gable-entry plan. The building is Grade 2 listed.
RCAHMW, June 2009 - Description: Chapel built 1823/4 with extension & rebuilding of 1857-8. Other internal woodwork of late C19. New roof & other repairs of 1899. Built in the Simple round-headed style with gable-entry plan. C20 plastic windows. Building is listed Grade 2. Status (2001): in chapel use.
Baptist chapel of 1857 with a simple small 2-storey rendered gable façade. The slate roof has plain wooden soffits and bargeboards. Two first-floor arched windows are either side of a central date plaque. The ground floor has square-headed windows, a central arched doorway and recessed panelled double doors, reached by 3 stone steps on bricks. Windows have large panes with marginal panes. The 2-window side walls are rendered with windows on each floor similar to the front, but those on the S side are C20 plastic in original openings. The S wall has a small derelict lean-to attached, with a similar brick lean-to beyond.
The interior has an attractive painted and grained gallery of 1857, while other woodwork is later C19. A simple 3-sided raked gallery is on plain iron columns grouped 2x1x2. Long horizontal panels over marbled plain beam with gas lamp fittings are attached. The later C19 pulpit platform has twin stairs with turned balusters, and newels with finials. Similar balusters eare on ach side of the large projecting canted-sided pulpit. This is panelled with a heavily moulded top rail and an S-curved deep overhang to a small panelled base. The rear of the pulpit is close-boarded to the level of the gallery top, presumably later C19 as it partly covers a classical arched recess with simple capitals and moulded arch. The plain later C19 3-sided set fawr has a close-boarded back. Later C19 pews are in three blocks with close-boarded backs and shaped bench ends. The centre block is centrally divided; the side blocks are gently angled to the pulpit and are inward-facing beside the pulpit. Walls have wainscoting to above window sill level. The rear gallery pews have stick balusters against the first-floor windows to the height of the lower sash. The flat plaster ceiling has circular metal vent in centre with moulded surround.
The entrance lobby has a tiled floor. Single half-glazed doors, with ornate handles, in angled wall lead into the chapel. The lobby wall has a square window with marginal glazing bars. - Built: 1823 Source:RCCEORBWM
- Built: 1823 Source:Cadw
- Date Of Chapel: 1857 Source:Cadw
- Plastic Windows: 1900-1999 Source:Cadw
- Other Internal Woodwork: 1880A Source:Cadw
- Rebuilt: 1857 Source:RCCEORBWM
- Builder: 1857 D. Bevan,
- £ 650: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 250: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 2001 (Llawlyfr)
- Chapel: 07/2011 ()
- Welsh: 2001 (Llawlyfr)
- Materials
- Rendered
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Storey: Two Storey
- Style: Simple Round-Headed
- Gallery: On Three Sides
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Pulpit Position: Rear Wall
- Window Glazing: Margin
- Windows: Round-Headed
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- Grid Reference: SN95060809
- Address: PONTBREN LLWYD, PENDERYN, ABERDARE
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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