- Nprn: 7085
- Summary: Saron Methodist Chapel was built in 1897 in the Simple Round-Headed style of the gable entry type.
RCAHMW, October 2009
The chapel has been converted for residential use.
Conwy Planning Office, 2009 - Description: Chapel founded 1896 & built 1897 in simple round-headed style, gable entry type. Status (1995): in chapel use. Date of present building 1897.
This has a duplicate record, 12411. This (7085) is the prime record to use.
1897; much of the work was done by craftsmen members from this quarrying village, for instance, by the ancestor of the present organist, who did the woodwork. Walls with pebbledash coating; slate roof.
Gable façade with centre entry in projecting gabled porch with slate tile roof and red tile ridge; semi-circular headed doorway with pair of wooden-boarded doors and four-pane fanlight. Semi-circular headed window with moulded archivolt to each side, of four large panes with an opening light in the outer top pane, and under a four-pane radiating head. Above the porch, a Venetian window with moulded architraves; the centre light is of four panes under radiating panes in its semi-circular head; flat-headed four-pane light to each side. In front gable, painted plaque with canted angles: "Saron/ MC/ 1897".
Chapel ground enclosed at front by wall, dwarf wall and railings and gates and gate piers. Limestone gate piers with painted stepped and flat coping. Iron gates have uprights with stud/ button finials above middle rail and fleur-de-lys finials above top rail. Dwarf wall and railings each side, the railings inserted later. The dwarf wall has pebbledash coating and white painted-stone coping; spear-headed iron railings, two bays of railings on NE. that return to NE. angle of chapel; one wider bay on W. returning to stone boundary wall round NW. angle of chapel ground.
Lateral elevations each contain four flat-headed window openings with plain reveals and painted projecting cills and four-pane fixed windows with margin lights.
Unfenestrated rear, SE. gable end; wooden-boarded door at ground level on right hand.
Interior: the single-storey timber vestibule projects into the chapel and is built against the rear face of the chapel entrance wall which has a matchboarded dado and splayed reveals to the chapel entrance. The vestibule has a matchboarded ceiling and its timber walls are faced with three tiers of stopped and chamfered panels, the middle tier tallest; in its side walls are doors of four stopped and chamfered panels to the chapel aisles.
Chapel interior: matchboarded dado. Grey-painted plaster walls, painted as if faced with ashlar, with white "mortar" joints, the windows flanking the vestibule in entrance wall with mock stone voussoirs and the lateral walls with mock stone lintels. Each side the lateral window openings with beaded edging, splayed reveals and flat cills. Three wall vents, of 1897?, each side, with clasped hand handles and stamped: "Baxindale & Co., Chester, England". Three-bay and yellow-painted flat ceiling at collar level with three fretted wood ventilators; sloping sides below; trusses visible to collar level descend to wall corbels; two sets of curved timber brackets each side.
Four-panel door on NE. of pulpit and wall cupboard in SE. corner.
Open-ended pine bench seats with panelled backs, shaped ends with moulded tops; sloping book rests. Paired centre bank of seats with discontinuous stopped and chamfered panel seat divider. Two lateral banks of seats (numbered 1-10 on NE.) with two banks of seats each side at front of chapel, the last facing at right angles on to sides of Sedd Fawr and pulpit. The present electronic organ has displaced seating on SW. of pulpit, and the 19th-century harmonium is in the front seat on the SW. side of the paired bank of centre seats.
Rectangular Sedd Fawr of varnished pine with lateral entries, wood bench seat and blue-green carpeted floor; faced externally firstly with matchboarded panelling below, in a stopped and chamfered framework; secondly, faced with an upper and open tier of short turned wood balusters with moulded handrail, and short turned newels with square-chamfered caps and urn finials, and lined internally with blue-green curtaining. Lectern in centre of front of Sedd Fawr. Communion table in front of pulpit; Windsor chair to each side with arms and semi-circular back.
Flights of three carpeted steps each side to pulpit dais; balustrade and newels as to Sedd Fawr, but taller. Pulpit projection with canted and panelled sides; carved chevron band below moulded cornice. Lectern on carved and fluted brackets. Bench seat in pulpit with sloping matchboarded back.
Behind pulpit, white-painted semi-elliptical arch on partly fluted pilasters with caps; blue-painted panel within the arch and, in gilded lettering: "Sancteiddrwydd a weddai ith dy/ O Arglwydd Byth". Bracket for former oil lamp each side (lamps not in use but retained in the chapel). Formerly four oil lamps hung also from roof trusses; now opaque white-glass lamps for electric light hang in their place.
Two-manual harmonium by Alexandre Pere e Fils, Paris, with barley-sugar twisted front legs and hinged lid.
Registration: Forte, Voix humaine, Second basson, Baryon, Capula, Sourdine, Hautbois, Clarion, Bourdon, Percusson, Cor Anglais, Grand Jeu, Expression, Percussion de flute, Clarinette, Fifre, Basson, Tremolo, Copula, Second flute, Second Hautbois, Voix celeste, Forte.
Electronic organ (Jubileum 161): Registration: Contra bass 16, Octave 8, Fagott 16, Principal 8, Gedecht 2, Octave 4, Flute 4, Bourdon 16, Principal 8, Gedecht 8, Octave 4, Flute 4, Octave 2, Quint(?), Mixt ?, Vox celeste 8, Trumpet 8, Tremulant.
The chapel owned land and owned Saron Cottages and Saron Villas. Saron Cottages comprises a row of houses below the chapel on SE., formerly entirely belonging to the chapel, with two cottages still rented out. Pebbledash walls with rendered end quoins, slate roof with red tile ridge and two red brick stacks. Three first-floor windows with rendered architraves face NW..
Saron Villas comprise a pair of semi-detached villas next to the chapel on SW., and now in private ownership. Gable ended façade with bargeboard and finial; a paired two-pane sash window to each house on both ground and first floors; two stacks on slate roof ridge; entries in side elevations.
OMJ
28/9 & 30/12/95
Visited 26/9/95 by kind permission of the Minister - Built: 1897 Source:Plaque
- Dated: 1897 Source:Morris, G (plaque)
- Founded: 1896 Source:RCCEORBWM
- Date Of Chapel: 1897 Source:
- £ 1840: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 150: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 21/08/1998 (Site visit - Glynn Morris)
- Converted: 2009 Residential use (Conwy planning Office)
- Welsh: 21/08/1998 (Site visit - Glynn Morris)
- Materials
- Rendered
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Simple Round-Headed
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Window Glazing: Fanlight
- Windows: Round-Headed
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Map
- Grid Reference: SH81268136
- 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