- Nprn: 7148
- Cadw Ref: 22/B/8(4)
- Cadw Record No: 10179
- Summary: The Baptists had been quick off the mark to make provision for English worshippers. Even before the railway had opened, in 1863 a site in Alfred Place had been acquired. The chapel took some time to build, however and was not opened until 1870. The design was by Richard Owens of Liverpool at a cost of £1600, credited with well over 300 chapels in Wales and England.
It is in a simple Italianate Classical style, consisting of two storeys plus a basement. It has a three-bay gable facade of snecked rubble with rendered dressings and a band course with a vacant datestone, beneath a pitched slate roof with finials carried on banded end pilaster strips. The central bay of the chapel facade has a tall, stilted arched plate tracery three-light window with a rose pattern oculus, while the outer bays have square-headed windows on the ground floor, arch-headed on the gallery, with continuous voussoirs, recessed under gabled hoods. The side elevations are cement rendered and have five bays, each with arch-headed sash windows.
Within the chapel a raked gallery with foliage panelled front spans one wall, mounted upon cast iron fluted columns with foliage capitals. The renewed coved ribbed ceiling has corbelled cornice, ventilation panels and a foliage rose in each bay.
Source: Cadw Listed Building Record
RCAHMW Inventory Documents
K Steele, RCAHMW, 17 March 2009 - Description: Chapel built 1870 in Romanesque style, gable entry type, to the design of Richard Owen of Liverpool (cost £1600). A prominent feature of this Chapel is the large arch in the façade. Status (1998): in chapel use.
- Built: 1870 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Built*: 1870 Source:Anthony Jones
- Date Of Chapel: 1870 Source:
- Opened: 1870 Source:Cadw
- Architect: 1870 Richard Owens, Liverpool
- £ 2500: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 400: 1903 (Horsfall-Turner)
- 400: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 250: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 25/08/1996 (Site visit)
- Chapel: 2010 (Site visit)
- Chapel: 2/12/2010 (Denominational website)
- Materials
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Romanesque
- Plan: Gable Entry
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- Grid Reference: SN58298179
- Address: ALFRED PLACE, ABERYSTWYTHABERYSTWYTH
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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