- Nprn: 6368
- Cadw Ref: (WO)2/18
- Cadw Record No: 11018
- Summary: Tabernacl Chapel was built in 1804, rebuilt in 1836. and later modified in 1869 and 1874. The present chapel is dated 1836 and built in the Simple Gothic style of the long-wall entry type. The building was renovated in 1906 and is now Grade 2 listed.
RCAHMW, June 2009. - Description: Chapel built 1836; present chapel was built in 1836 and rebuilt/modified 1869 & 1874. Building is listed Grade 2. Built in the Simple Gothic style, long-wall entry type. Status (2000): in chapel use.
CADW
Exterior - Chapel painted stucco with slate gabled roof, deep eaves and gable verges, the eaves with Greek Revival mutules (as also on Llandingat House). Large chapel with Gothic windows and otherwise classical detail. Raised plinth, rusticated ground floor with moulded band over and channelled angle strips above. Four large pointed windows and 2 doors, windows are longer to 2 centre bays, the sills well below the moulded band. The windows have marginal lights and intersecting Gothic bars in heads, possibly reglazed in 1869. Coloured glass in margins and topmost pane with HIS motif. Moulded pointed hoodmoulds on short moulded corbels. Painted sills. Outer windows have heads considerably higher. Centre framed plaque inscribed 'Tabernacl Capel y Trefnyddion Calfinaidd Adeiladwyd MDCCCXXXVI'.
Ground floor has 2 elliptical-arched doorways with radiating voussoirs and keystones breaking through band. Stone steps, broad C20 panelled double doors with plain fanlights. In centre, memorial plaque to Rev Rees Phillips (d 1854), the surround with Gothic panels to pilasters, cornice and panelled obelisk finials, ogee curved top to centre with urn and book inscribed Hebr. 12. 7. Corbelled sill. Coffin shaped slab inset in tarmac in front. W side is slate-hung with overhanging gable verges, 2-storey, 2-window, pointed windows above, square-headed below with C20 glazing. E side is similar but rendered.
Interior - Large galleried interior. Gallery of 1869 is 5-sided with timber front in long panels with modillion cornice and modillion brackets beneath, gallery carried on 6 iron posts. Painted grained porches in angles have coloured glass in margins of overlights to doors and to margins of large square windows on inner sides facing pulpit. Cornices above beneath large panelled cases of organ divided in 2 and set over each porch, blocking gallery windows. Later C19 pine pews, later C19 set fawr with turned balusters and newels with ball finials. Painted grained pulpit platform of 1869 with panelled base, curved corners and top balustrade. Pulpit breaks forward, also balustraded with curved corners. Behind the pulpit a pointed-arched plaster recess. A very large pointed arch frames the 2 centre windows and has a blank traceried rose above, the ribs forming a Celtic cross. Narrow coved cornice. Ceiling has inner square with double border framed by moulded ribs, the border with square panels at corners and lozenges at centre of each side linked to centre roundel by moulded ribs. Centre has a spiral acanthus rose with vine trail in circular border. Entrance porches each have double doors to stairs to galleries, the stairs turning at right angles. - Restored: 1869 Source:Welsh Office (plaque
- Restored: 1869 Source:Lloyd, Thomas
- Built: c.1800 Source:Religious Census
- Dated (plaque): 1836 Source:MHLG/Off. for Wales
- Built: 1836 Source:Welsh Office (plaque
- Facade: 1836 Source:Lloyd, Thomas
- Built: 1804 Source:Lloyd, Thomas
- Date Of Chapel: 1836 Source:
- Rebuilt: 1836 Source:Lloyd, Thomas
- Modified: 1874 Source:
- Renovated: 1906 Source:CADW
- House Built: 1836 Source:CADW
- Schoolroom Built: 1836 Source:CADW
- Stable Built: 1836 Source:CADW
- Schoolroom Demolished: 1891 Source:CADW
- Vestry Built: 1891 Source:
- £ 2200: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 800: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 120: 1905 Accomodation (RCCEORBWM)
- 200: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 600: 1851 (Religious Census)
- Chapel: 2000 (Blwyddiadur)
- Chapel: 2011 (Denominational Yearbook)
- Welsh: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- Materials
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Simple Gothic
- Plan: Long-wall entry
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Map
- Grid Reference: SN76883444
- Address: QUEEN STREET, LLANDOVERYLLANDOVERY
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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