- Nprn: 6291
- Summary: Troedyrhiw Baptist Church was built in 1869 and renovated in 1906. Th church is built in the Simple Round-Headed style of the gable entry type.
RCAHMW, June 2009. - Description: Chapel built 1869; railings of 1892; renovated in 1906. Built in the Simple Round-Headed style, gable entry type. Status (1998): in chapel use. SEE LONG TEXT
Reading and prayer meetings held in a room in the local inn before the present chapel was built on the land of Troedyrhiw Farm, hence the name of the chapel. Set on SW. side of the A484 road as it winds uphill through Cwmduad.
1869; railings of 1892; chapel renovated /renewed 1906. Grey-blue stuccoed gable façade with centre entry. Stuccoed end quoins; slate roof. Semi-circular doorway with raised quoins and plain reveals; 2 C19 doors each of 2 long moulded panels with triangular heads. Fanlight of 4 radiating panes with coloured-glass scallop panes at outer edges. Flanking semi-circular headed windows with moulded archivolts and with projecting cills at impost level of centre doorway; white-painted frame; each of 2 long panes with 2 short quadrant panes in the head; early-C20 coloured and leaded glass: arranged from the bottom in squares then lozenges, and with squares in the top quadrants; gold, vermillion, blueish and greenish glass. In between the window heads and in caps and raised letters: "ADNEWYDDWYD /1906". In centre, above the flanking windows, a circular plaque with moulded frame and incised, part-Gothic lettering: "Troedyrhiw /Capel y Bedyddwyr" round the frame and, in centre, "Adeiladwyd /1869". Red-painted bargeboard with pendant finial. Forecourt strip of concrete; central concrete path with one step; further step to the entrance doors. Forecourt boundary walls, internally stuccoed and externally of pebbledash; slate coping. Grey-painted iron gates and railings: r.h. gate pier stamped "1892" and ?"T.Jones" and illegible [?Priory Works, Carmarthen?]. Circular uprights and finials of gates rise alternately to above top and lock rails; standards with finials (loosely resembling chicory or endive in appearance); square iron gate piers. Railings of similar design; 3 bays to either side of gate; 2 and a bit bays to returns.
R.h., NW. return elevation of white pebbledash; 2 taller semi-circular windows with plain rendered reveals; top quadrant lights; similar coloured and patterned glass as to front windows but in more tiers. 2 similar, closely-set windows in rear gable. UPVC windows in original or 1902 openings in SE. return.
Vestibule interior: herringbone wood-block parquet floor. Flight of gallery stairs at either end; stick balusters; plain varnished octagonal newel posts; 13 steps each. Painted-plaster vestibule walls, inner wall with grey dado. White-painted raked ceiling with decorative circular rose, the plaster moulding picked out in pale green and pink; pink and green mouldings to white outer border, centre panel with 5 green-painted acanthus leaves. Central C19 rectilinear window in inner vestibule wall: grained and moulded frame, red glass angle panes, green and blue margin panes, large octagonal pane in centre, now C20 frosted glss, with corner panes of C19 etched glass. Canted sides to inner vestibule wall with pairs of C20 doors to chapel; C19? Overlights of square and rectangular panes of red, blue and green glass. Matchboarding above door and enclosing stair.
Chapel interior: matchboarded dado; painted-plaster walls. Windows with splayed reveals and raked cills; ventilator handle in NW. cills. White plaster ceiling, plain except plaster rose, similar but not identical to vestibule ceiling rose. Gallery beam painted white towards chapel, supported by 4 circular cast-iron columns, the upper shafts of gold-beige marbling above and of brown paint below; caps; column shafts stamped "? Priory Foundry Carmarthen". Three-sided gallery and gallery front, the last faced with grained and moulded wood panels, alternately wide and alternately narrow, with rebated angles; handrail. Integral circular clock: "J.? Williams /(not read)". Wooden-boarded floors to open-bench seats with dark-stained half-moulding at top. Mathcboarded backs; simple shaped and chamfered ends with flat tops; sloping bookrests and metal communion glass holders. Paired centre block of 6 seats depth, with continuous mathcboarded seat divider; front seat partly removed for organ. Lateral blocks of 10 seats depth, set slightly askew, with the external ends of the seats set forward. Each side at the pulpit end, 3 seats face at right angles on to side of Sedd Fawr.
Rectangular Sedd Fawr; bench seat with shaped ends and red felt seat cover (ornamented with crosses and fleur-de-lys). Flanking pulpit staircases (5 steps each) with turned wood balusters of C17 style under dark-stained handrail. No baptismal tank; baptisms still in river (at sister church of Fynnon Henri). 5-sided pine pulpit with narrow canted sides and returns; above pulpit string, shallow raised and fielded panels beneath balustrading as to pulpit stairs. Brass lamp standard on pulpit balustrade. Plaster arch to rear of pulpit with grey and white painted pilasters, fluted brackets. Wall tablet in arch in memory of The Reverend David Richards, Minister from 1881-1921.
Single-manual University organ with oak case.
Registration (l.h.): Bass coupler, Diapason 8', Dulciana 8', Trombone 16', Gamba 8', Viola 4', Viola Dolce 4', Sub bass 16'.
Forte II, Vox humana; Forte I
(r.h.): Flute 4', Cremona 8', Clarinet 16', Melodia 8', Diapason 8', Treble coupler.
Raked gallery seating; bench seats with matchboarded backs. Each side from Sedd Fawr end: paired bench seat with matchboarded back and plain bench divider; wall bench to rear. 2ndly, long bench seat. At the back of the gallery, 2 wide bench seats plus a rear wall bench. Chapel ground on NW. and SW., enclosed from lane to school by stone wall with rendered coping, gate piers and iron filed gate. Burials take place at Ffynnon Henri.
OMJ
18/12 & 24/2/96
Visited 18/12/96 by kind permission of the Minster
NMR Investigator photos: 960029/9-18 - Restored: 1906 Source:Datestone
- Built: 1869 Source:Datestone
- Railings: 1892 Source:
- £ 700: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 220: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 1998 (Llawlyfr)
- Disused: 12/2010 For sale (RCAHMW)
- Disused: 03/2014 Proposed conversion to dwelling (R Scourfield)
- 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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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