- Nprn: 6427
- Cadw Ref: 24/A/25(1)
- Cadw Record No: 11910
- Summary: Siloah Independent Chapel was built in 1840 and enlarged/rebuilt in 1855 to the design of architect Thomas Thomas of Landore. The main gabled street front has a sophisticated design finished in render, with four giant attached classical columns (pilasters) capped by voluted or scrolled capitals in the Ionic Style. The chapel was enlarged/rebuilt again in 1904, to the design of arhitect David Jones of Llanelli. The current chapel, dated 1904, is built in the Classical Round-Headed style with a gable entry plan and Florentine-tracery window glazing. The building is Grade 2 listed.
RCAHMW, June 2009 - Description: Siloah Independent Chapel, 1855
Siloah is a particularly important surviving early work by the Independent Minister/carpenter/architect Thomas Thomas, originally from Llandeilo, who designed almost 1,000 chapels. The main gabled street front has a sophisticated design finished in render and Thomas here uses four giant attached classical columns (pilasters) capped by voluted or scrolled capitals in the Ionic Style. This contrasts with his later work in which Thomas and other Welsh chapel architects used cheaper capitals in the simpler Tuscan or Doric style. Thomas probably borrowed the idea of the large simple name and date plaque in the pediment or gable from the adjacent Bethel Chapel, built in rather similar style five years earlier. The upper window-heads all have Florentine tracery while the central arched Venetian window has its sill underneath supported on stone corbels, a distinctive design feature of Thomas chapels later also seen in Ebenezer. The central doorway was converted into a window when the two bayed ground-floor porches were added in 1903 to the design of David Jones of Llanelli, in a similar style to those he had added to Capel Als of the same congregation. The seated capacity of the chapel recorded in 1905 was 800, a good average for the Llanelli, and urban Wales, although its schoolroom capacity of 200 was fairly small compared to others in the town.
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.
Chapel built 1840/1 & enlarged 1855/6 to the design of Rev Thomas Thomas of Landore. Rebuilt/enlarged 1904 to the design of David Jones of Llanelli. Present building dates from 1904. Building is listed Grade 2. Status (1998): in chapel use.
Crisply delineated classic chapel with an unhappy double-bay porch with a roof across to unite them. Porches are 5-sided with miniature hipped roofs crowned with a light iron railing.
Rather szchiophrenic (schizophrenic ?) façade as the lower half is quite separate stylistically from the upper. Lower capitals to four flat pilasters. Eliptical plaque. Palladian window cluster.
1851 Census reply: "Several absent, some at sea, some engaged in copper smelting, some an amount of illness".
(Anthony Jones) - Built: 1840 Source:Religious Census
- Built: 1840 Source:Cadw (plaque)
- Built: 1840 Source:Orbach, Julian
- Built: 1840 Source:Jones, Anthony
- Date Of Chapel: 1904 Source:
- Enlarged: 1855 Source:Cadw (plaque)
- Enlarged: 1855 Source:Orbach, Julian
- Enlarged: 1853 Source:Jones, Anthony
- : 1904 Source:
- Architect: 1904 David Jones, Llanelli
- Architect: 1855 Thomas Thomas, Landore
- £ 3500: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 800: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 82: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 484: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 200: 1905 Accomodation (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 1998 (Blwyddiadur)
- Chapel: 05/2012 with community centre use (EBR application)
- Disused: 04/2012 (EBR application)
- Materials
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Classical
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Window Glazing: Florentine Tracery
- Windows: Round-Headed
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- Grid Reference: SS50469933
- Address: GLANMOR ROAD; COPPERWORKS ROAD, SEASIDE, 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