- Nprn: 6423
- Summary: Lloyd Street Independent Chapel was built in 1886, in Gothic style, to the design of architect Thomas Arnold of Llanelli. In 1904 the chapel was rebuilt and enlarged to the design of architect David Lewis Jones of Llanelli The chapel was demolished in 1994.
RCAHMW, June 2009 - Description: Chapel built 1887 in Gothic style to the design of T. Arnold. Rebuilt/enlarged to the design of David Lewis Jones, West End, and was associated with Capel y Doc. Status (2000): demolished [in 1994].Demolished 1994, M/DES/B/CM/94/05.
Lloyd Street Independent Chapel, 1887
A rather modest and old-fashioned design built in simple chapel gothic by Thomas Arnold of Llanelli who had in fact designed `full gothic' churches such as Saint David's at Llwynhendy five years previously. For this chapel he used two-storey facades mostly in local Pennant sandstone with little use of fine stone dressings even on the main façade. The main design element of the show-front towards the street is the central recessed `great-arch', a design element pioneered in the chapels of the Independent denomination by Thomas Thomas and John Humphrey as seen at Ebenezer and Capel-y-Doc. All the many first-floor windows are single lancet arches with simple `Y' tracery and the ground-floor openings are rather domestic-looking shallow-arched openings. The most elaborate ornamentation in what is otherwise an economically-built structure are the cut-stone flanking turrets with recessed panels headed by gothic trefoiled arches and capped by the miniature spires beloved of nonconformist architects.
Lloyd Street Interior
A rich interior glowing with the warmth of pine woodwork enhanced by the contrast of shining white-painted cast-iron panels and gallery-support columns that would have been cast in one of the local town foundries. As in most gothic chapels there is a slight gabled ceiling but the central flat areas allow the use of elaborate ceiling-roses as decoration. The seating capacity of 750 (with 250 children in the adjoining schoolroom) was fairly average for both Llanelli and Wales.
Entry by Stephen R. Hughes 06.09.2007 using the following main sources: the Capel Newsletter 34 (Autumn 1999), Capel Local Information Sheet 16 on Llanelli; T. Lloyd, J. Orbach & R. Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (Yale, New Haven & The Buildings of Wales) 2006 & chapels on The Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales database at www.coflein.gov.uk & Royal Commission on the Church of England and other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire, Volume VI, Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence Nonconformist County Statistics 1911, Carmarthenshire (collected 1905), (London, HMSO) 1911, p.82 & Stephen Hughes, 'Thomas Thomas, 1817-88: the first national architect of Wales', Archaeologia Cambrensis 152 (2003), pp. 69-166. - Closed: 1900-1999 Source:Watts, Gareth
- Built: 1886 Source:JO index
- Rebuilt: 1904 Source:JO index
- Demolished: 1994 Source:
- Architect: 1886 Thomas Arnold, Llanelli
- Architect: 1904 David Lewis Jones, Llanelli
- £ 4200: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 750: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 250: 1905 Accomodation (RCCEORBWM)
- Demolished: 1998 (Site visit - G Watts)
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- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
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- Grid Reference: SN50470011
- Address: LLOYD STREET, LLANELLILLANELLI
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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