- Nprn: 6437
- Cadw Ref: 24/A/48(2)
- Cadw Record No: 11933
- Summary: Greenfield Chapel was built in 1858 in the Classical style of the gable entry type. The chapel was designed by architect Henry Rogers of Llanelli. Galleries were added in 1861 and 1867. Romanesque-style school rooms were built in 1887, to the design of George Morgan of Carmarthen, but have since been demolished and the site sold for flats. The present chapel building, dated 1858, is Grade 2 listed.
RCAHMW, June 2009
Greenfield English Baptist Chapel, 1858
As befits its corner site this is a full classical temple design of chapel with ornamentation on the sides, as well as the more developed columned main entrance front, with a handsome correctly detailed porch over the central door. It seems to have been the third of the series of classical Baptist Chapel designs by the local carpenter/architect Henry Rogers in Llanelli and is the most elaborate, showing a sophistication in classical detail often missing from Welsh Chapel architecture. The general details are similar to the Zion Chapel he had designed the year before, here executed in expensive Bath stone over the mass walls constructed in local Pennant sandstone from the coal measures. What is unusual is that the classical entablature above the attached Doric (more correctly `Tuscan') columns or pilasters is interrupted by vertical fluted triglyphs rather than being a simple broad stone band. The block-like corbels or `mutules.' supporting the projecting cornice at the top of the entablature are carried around the sides of the building, and also support the sloping sides of the gable, to complete an unusually correct example of classical temple architecture. At the time of the religious census of 1905 the value of the buildings was put at £10,190, the greatest of any chapel in Llanelli. The seating capacity of 740 was fairly average for Llanelli but its two schoolrooms could house no less than 1,050, in 1905 by far the greatest number in Llanelli.
Stephen R. Hughes, RCAHMW, 06.09.2007 - Description: Chapel built 1858 in classical style, gable entry type, to the design of Henry Rogers of Llanelli. Galleries added in 1861 & 1867. Building is listed Grade 2. Romanesque-style schools (now-demolished)built 1887 to the design of George Morgan of Carmarthen. Alterations 1910 (cost £2211). Status (1998): in chapel use. Schoolroom site sold to Baptist Housing Association for flats.
A well-maintained chapel, with basement schoolroom and new PVC windows and ceiling. Flats for Senior Citizens have been erected on land sold to the Baptist Housing Association, on the site of the other large schoolroom, a fine building, demolished many years ago (information of 20/07/1998 from Mr Gareth Watts).
"A sober and well-proportioned classical building", inside, with "very pretty iron gallery fronts on all four sides". George Morgan's "hefty Romanesque schools" of 1887, which have been demolished (extracts from Julian Orbach's programme notes for the Victorian Society's visit to Llanelli on 22 June, 1991).
Greenfield English Baptist Chapel, 1858
As befits its corner site this is a full classical temple design of chapel with ornamentation on the sides, as well as the more developed columned main entrance front, with a handsome correctly detailed porch over the central door. It seems to have been the third of the series of classical Baptist Chapel designs by the local carpenter/architect Henry Rogers in Llanelli and is the most elaborate, showing a sophistication in classical detail often missing from Welsh Chapel architecture. The general details are similar to the Zion Chapel he had designed the year before, here executed in expensive Bath stone over the mass walls constructed in local Pennant sandstone from the coal measures. What is unusual is that the classical entablature above the attached Doric (more correctly `Tuscan') columns or pilasters is interrupted by vertical fluted triglyphs rather than being a simple broad stone band. The block-like corbels or `mutules.' supporting the projecting cornice at the top of the entablature are carried around the sides of the building, and also support the sloping sides of the gable, to complete an unusually correct example of classical temple architecture. At the time of the religious census of 1905 the value of the buildings was put at £10,190, the greatest of any chapel in Llanelli. The seating capacity of 740 was fairly average for Llanelli but its two schoolrooms could house no less than 1,050, in 1905 by far the greatest number in Llanelli.
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. - Gallery Added: 1867 Source:Cadw
- Gallery Added: 1861 Source:Cadw
- Built: 1858 Source:Cadw
- Dated Externally: 1858 Source:Watts, G. (plaque)
- Built: 1858 Source:Jones, Anthony
- Built: 1858 Source:Orbach, Julian
- Date Of Chapel: 1858 Source:
- Schoolrooms [demolished]: 1887 Source:Orbach, Julian
- Ss Built [now Demolished]: 1887 Source:Cadw
- Alterations: 1910 Source:JO index
- Architect: 1858 Henry Rogers, Llanelli
- Architect: 1858 Henry Rogers, Llanelli
- Architect: 1887 George Morgan, Carmarthen
- Architect: 1887 George Morgan, Carmarthen
- Architect: 1910 John Howard Morgan, Carmarthen
- £ 10190: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 1050: 1905 Accomodation - 2 Schoolrooms (RCCEORBWM)
- : 12/03/1992 (Cadw)
- 740: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 20/07/1998 (Site visit - Gareth Watts)
- Chapel: 2011 (Chapel's own website)
- English: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- Materials
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Classical
- Gallery: On four sides
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Pulpit Position: Rear wall
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Map
- Grid Reference: SN50570008
- Address: MURRAY STREET; STATION ROAD, 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