- Nprn: 6272
- Cadw Record No: 22502
- Summary: Calfaria Church was built in 1827 and rebuilt in 1877 by architect George Morgan of Carmarthen. The chapel is Romanesque in style with a gable-entry plan. and is Grade 2 listed.
RCAHMW, June 2009. - Description: Chapel built 1827/8 & the church formed (registered?) in 1833. Rebuilt/modified 1877. Status (1998): in chapel use.
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History - Baptist chapel of 1877 by George Morgan, in his characteristic Romanesque style. It replaced a chapel of 1828, and cost £1,200.
Exterior - Chapel, coursed rock-faced grey rubble stone with Bath stone dressings. Slate roof and coped gables with kneelers. Romanesque style, gable front of 3 bays, 3 large arches, the centre broader and stilted, on 4 piers with ashlar flush rustication and moulded capitals. Arches are flush ashlar with bicolour voussoirs above. In gable a small roundel with pierced quatrefoil. Centre arch has big octofoil ashlar rose window with bicolour voussoirs over double panelled doors with trilobe fanlight, in ashlar porch with heavy columns, trilobe arch and coped gable. Columns have carved capitals and gable has inscribed 'Built 1828 Calfaria Rebuilt 1877'. Side walls are 2-storey, 4-window with cambered headed windows below and arched above, linked by impost band. Ashlar flush surrounds with bicolour voussoirs. Glazing is C20 plastic copying intricate original pattern with lozenges up centre of each window and horizontal bars. Flush angle quoins, ashlar eaves course.
Interior - Ceiling has arch-braced collar trusses on corbels, brattished wall-plate and plaster panels to sloping sides and across at collar level. Pierced timber lozenge ventilators to centre. Three-sided gallery on iron columns with furled leaf capitals. Gallery front projects on carved brackets, with panelled underside, moulded cornice below frontal of vertical boarding under long cast-iron panels, to a pattern of crosses in quatrefoils. Curved gallery angles, raked and curved gallery pews. Coloured glass in rose window. Main pews are pitch-pine, in 3 blocks, with boarded backs and shaped bench ends. Dado rail around walls with pierced quatrefoils. Plain 3-sided set fawr. Pulpit platform has steps each side, 2 bays to platform each side with open arches and scrolled iron inserts. Pulpit front projects with 2 plain arched panels. Gothic newel and corner posts with chamfering and pyramid caps. Behind the pulpit is a big plaster arched feature, a main arch with shafted narrow side arches, the column shafts with carved capitals, and the arches to a thick half-round profile, and an outer arch overall. Between heads of the inner and outer arches is a roundel, and there is an overall arched hoodmould on corbels. Marble centre memorial to the Rev D S Davies, d 1917. Entrance lobby has 3-light leaded and coloured glass window and canted sides each with double door. - Built: 1827 Source:Religious Census
- Church Formed: 1833 Source:Llawlyfr 1998
- Rebuilt: 1877 Source:BOW
- Date Of Chapel: 1877 Source:
- Architect: 1877 George Morgan, Carmarthen
- £ 1600: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 115: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 150: 1905 Accomodation (RCCEORBWM)
- 119: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 500: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 1998 (Llawlyfr)
- Chapel: 2011 (Denominational website)
- Materials
- Stone
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Documents
- Style: Lombardic
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Window Glazing: Large Pane
- Windows: Round-Headed
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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