- Nprn: 6443
- Cadw Ref: 24/A/21(3)
- Cadw Record No: 11906
- Summary: Chapel Newydd Chapel was built in 1809, enlarged in 1821 and then rebuilt in 1828 and 1840. A schoolroom was added in 1901 and a new facade in 1910. The present chapel, dated 1910, has a Classical Facade and a long-wall entry plan.The building is now Grade 2 listed.
RCAHMW, June 2009. - Description: Chapel built 1809, enlarged 1821 & rebuilt 1828. Present chapel rebuilt 1840 with a classical facade, long-wall entry type, & schoolroom added in 1901. Building is listed Grade 2. See Site Files [Ecclesiastical] for photos. Status (1998): in chapel use. Date of present building 1910.
A fine building, well maintained, externally and internally (information of 19/08/1998 from Mr Gareth Watts, noted 20/07/2000 by K Andrews).
"A splendid Edwardian Baroque façade of 1910" applied to what had been "a side-façade chapel with long-arched windows & pedimented porches, old fashioned for its [1840] date" (J Orbach's programme notes for Vic Soc). Before 1840, the chapel had been 1st built in 1809 (1851 R. Census & chapel history), & rebuilt in 1828 (chapel history). In 1910 a schoolroom was also added (G Watts). Status (1998): in chapel use. (short text prior 11/2/2003)
Capel Newydd Calvinistic Methodist 1911
This is an early example of Edwardian Baroque architecture applied to chapel design (in this case to re-fronting an earlier chapel of the 1840s) by the local architects J. Davies & Son of Llanelli. There is an awkwardness to the design that precludes the hand of the professional architect Beddoe-Rees of Cardiff who popularised this type of architecture after publishing a book on chapel design in 1903. On this chapel the elegant cut-stone classical detail is spoilt by the upper central Venetian and side windows being cramped up against the attached columns and corner quoins of the building. The double, or coupled, pair of attached columns flanking the central part of the façade shows the influence of French Beaux-arts in this pioneering design.
Capel Newydd Interior. A gorgeous warm interior made when the chapel front was re-constructed in 1911 as part of the general `make-over' of the chapel. The flat ceiling, so typical of nonconformist buildings is ornamented by two of the very large floral ceiling rose roundels which are characteristic of larger and more elaborate chapels. They have a functional origin for at their centres are floral grills which give access to the large ventilation tubes of ducts in the attic. Between the windows there are also metal boxes which are the intakes for additional ventilation, very necessary in gas-lit chapels. In 1905 the chapel seated 1,016 and was the biggest Calvinistic Methodist Chapel in Llanelli (though only the fourth biggest overall in the town) with a substantial schoolroom accommodating 400 pupils. It was the only nonconformist chapel in Llanelli to have an attached burial ground.
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. - Built: 1840 Source:Cadw
- Built: 1809 Source:Religious Census
- Built: 1840 Source:Orbach, Julian
- Facade: 1910 Source:Orbach, Julian
- Built: 1809 Source:Watts, Gareth
- Built: 1809 Source:Chapel History
- Date Of Chapel: 1910 Source:
- Piers And Low Wall: Pre 1910 Source:Cadw
- Railings,gates, Side Wall: Post 1910 Source:Cadw
- Re-fronted: 1910 Source:Cadw
- Rebuilt: 1840 Source:Chapel History
- Renewed: 1910 Source:Watts, Gareth
- Rebuilt: 1828 Source:Watts, Gareth
- Rebuilt: 1840 Source:Watts, Gareth
- Rebuilt: 1828 Source:Chapel History
- Rebuilt: 1840 Source:Religious Census
- Rebuilt: 1910 Source:Chapel History
- Schoolroom: 1901 Source:Watts, Gareth
- Alterationa: 1902 Source:BOW
- £ 6600: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 1016: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 250: 1851 Standing (Religious Census)
- 738: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 400: 1905 Accomodation (RCCEORBWM)
- 90: 1851 (Religious Census)
- Chapel: 2000 (Blwyddiadur)
- Chapel: 2011 (Denominational Yearbook)
- Welsh: 19/08/1998 (Site visit - Gareth Watts)
- Materials
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Classical
- Gallery: On three sides
- Plan: Long-wall entry
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Images from Coflein
Map
- Grid Reference: SN50800090
- Address: FELINFOEL ROAD, CAPEL NEWYDD LANE, 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