- Nprn: 7084
- Summary: Calfaria Baptist Chapel was built in 1895 in the Vernacular style of the gable entry type. The chapel was built by the congregation, with limestone from the local quarr. The Sunday school and vestry are on the lower ground floor.
RCAHMW, October 2009 - Description: Chapel founded & built 1895 in vernacular style, gable entry type. Status (1998): in chapel use.
This has a duplicate record, 12413. This (7084) is the prime record to use.
1894. Welsh Baptist Chapel which celebrated its centenary on 24th September, 1995. Built by the congregation, e.g., Dic Pencae, carpenter; many of the members were connected with the quarries on the Little Orme. Split-level site with ground descending steeply below chapel towards SE. end; Sunday Schoool and kitchen at lower ground floor. Walls of local limestone faced externally with pebbledash; rendered dressings. Slate roof with red tile ridge. The chapel shares a burial ground at Ffolt with Ainon Baptist chapel at Glanwydden.
NW. gable façade with centre entry to rear vestibule. Rendered window dressings, end quoins, raking cornice to gable and pilasters and band framing roof ventilator. Shallowly projecting central gabled porch; rendered quoins and raking cornice; basket-arched doorway containing two doors faced with 20th-century covers and four-pane overlight; plaque in porch gable is inscribed "Welsh Baptist/ Chapel Penrhynside/ AD 1894". A triplet of windows above the porch, with separate architraves and cills; a taller two-light window in centre, of three-panes depth, with two top panes above a transom; flanking two-light windows, each of three-panes depth only. Roof vent in gable apex. To each side of porch, a two-light window of three-panes depth, with a single top pane above a top transom. Memorial stones of September 26th, 1894, below the end windows.
Shallow forecourt enclosed by limestone wall, railings, gates and gate piers. Two pairs of stone gate piers with rusticated coping flank gates to chapel entrance and, on NE. (l.h.), flank gate with spear-headed finials leading down seven steps to Sunday School; stone boundary wall to chapel ground runs SE. here. Stone pier also at SW. (r.h.) front corner. Dwarf walls in front of chapel with moulded coping. The uprights to the gates in front of the chapel are square up to lock rail height, and twisted above, up to the top rail; fancy finials, extant in part. Land on SW. of chapel bounded along road by stone wall.
The lateral chapel elevations each have three two-light windows of three panes depth, with two top panes above a transom, rendered architraves and projecting cill; rendered band at cill level, and two narrow rendered bands at window head height; end quoins. Stringcourse above lower ground floor. NE. lateral elevation to the chapel is set above the entrance to the Sunday School and its flanking plate-glass sash windows with horns and slate cills. Boarded door with ventilator holes to the coal-house.
In the SE. gable end, two closely-spaced sash windows to the Sunday School. Two two-light windows above, flanking the chapel pulpit, of three-panes depth below a single top pane. Rendered gable stack.
Vestibule interior: the single-storey timber vestibule projects into the chapel and is built against the internal face of the chapel entrance wall. Internal faces of external chapel doors of five painted and grained panels each. Red tile floor. End doors to aisles each of five matchboarded panels: single shallow horizontally-boarded panel at the top, two diagonally-boarded panels in the centre and two vertically-boarded panels below. The internal vestibule wall has a stained-glass window of three lights with three shallow top lights; red margin lights; green, gold, red and white glass depicting fruit and flowers. The external face of the vestibule towards the chapel has a matchboarded dado, pale-green painted plaster walls above, under a white cornice and blocking course.
Like the vestibule, the chapel interior also has a matchboarded dado and pale-green painted plaster walls. Lateral wood-framed windows with splayed reveals and flat timber cills. The three windows above the vestibule with raked plaster cills. The ceiling is divided into three bays by stopped and chamfered braces and ribs; it has curved sloping sides divided into three tiers by wooden ribs, the curved sides rising to a flat centre portion, subdivided into six bays by a fretted ventilator strip extending from back to front of chapel.
Open-ended pine seats with panel backs; simple shaped ends with flat tops beneath top three-quarter moulding. Paired centre bank of seats of seven seats depth, with discontinuous seat divider; single lateral bank of seats of seven seats depth. Three seats each side at front, facing at right angles on to sides of Sedd Fawr and pulpit.
Single-manual "University" organ at front of centre bank of seats.
Registration: Bass coupler; Sub-base; Viol 4'; Viola dolce 4'; Diapason 8'; Dulciana 8'; Gamba 8'; Bourdon 18'; Forte II
Treble coupler; Vox humana; Forte I; Clarinet 16'; Cremona 8'; Melodia 8'; Diapason 8', Flute 4', Treble coupler.
Two steps up to lateral Sedd Fawr entries. The base of the Sedd Fawr dais is faced with matchboarding, the dais enclosed at the front and sides by an open parapet. The last has turned wood newels with square chamfered caps and turned ball finials both at the corners and flanking the lateral entries; twisted and scrolled iron standards under moulded wood handrail, one to each of the four side bays and, in front, three to each side of curved central lectern projection. Open parapet hung internally with a curtain. Six chairs in place of Sedd Fawr bench. Baptistery under Sedd Fawr. Steps up each side to pulpit, the pulpit dais with balustrade at sides, of turned wood balusters with outer newel as to Sedd Fawr parapet.
Central shallow rectangular pulpit projection with two-tier panelled sides and front, the front with fretwork panels, comprising two vertical panels below one shallow upper panel, the last between carved brackets to sloping lectern. Towards back of pulpit dais, a fixed bench seat with panelled back and shaped ends and with three tiers of panelling above, these tiers at the base of an arch on the rear wall above the pulpit. This has fluted pilasters and a moulded archivolt picked out in gold, and a pink and white keystone; pale-blue centre panel with the following lettering on the arch of a painted semi-circular panel: "DELED DY DEYRNAS". To each side of the pulpit and Sedd Fawr enclosure there is a four-panel wood door at the top of an enclosed flight of wood stairs leading down to the vestry and Sunday School.
Vestry and Sunday School interior: accessible also externally at lower ground floor from NE..
Wooden-boarded floor. Matchboarded dado; painted-plaster walls; white-painted plaster ceiling. Windows in NE. elevation with splayed reveals and flat timber cills, one each side of central, rectangular wooden-boarded vestibule with cornice and SE. door. Two four-panel sash windows also in the SW. wall. In the SE. wall, a staircase doorway to each end, and a recess with splayed reveals in the centre that accommodates a timber dais; a black fireplace surround of ca. 1900 on SW. of it, with mantleshelf on shaped brackets. Wide wooden bench seats with shaped brackets and wood plank seats and backs.
OMJ
25/9/95 & 31/12/95
Visited by kind permission of the Chapel Secretary
Photos:
NMR 9500367/0-/5
9500369/25-34 & 37. - Built: 1895 Source:Morris, Glynn
- Founded: 1895 Source:RCCEORBWM
- Date Of Chapel: 1895 Source:
- 250: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 21/08/1998 (Site visit - Glynn Morris)
- Disused: 2011 (Estate Agents website)
- Welsh: 21/08/1998 (Site visit - Glynn Morris)
- Materials
- Rendered
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Vernacular
- Gallery: X
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Pulpit Position: Rear wall
- Window Glazing: Large Pane
- Windows: Flat-Headed
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Images from Coflein
Map
- Grid Reference: SH81408154
- Address: PENDRE ROAD, PENRHYNSIDE/OCHR Y PENRHYN
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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