- Nprn: 7149
- Cadw Ref: 22/B/9(4)
- Cadw Record No: 10180
- Summary: The Baptists had been holding services in Aberystwyth since 1787, initially in a house in Queen Street, and in 1797, the Aberystwyth court leat allowed the Baptists to build their first chapel in Baker street, the first allowed outside the town walls., refer to permission granted to enclose the present chapel site, which was then described as "a certain part of waste ground on the way to the N. Turnpike Gate ..... And that Cadwalader Jones appointed John Humphreys, Carpenter, to erect and finish a meeting house ..... Of the same dimensions as shown on the plan prepared ... the dimensions being 50 feet long, 26 feet wide and 18 feet high with yard in front 35 yards long The first bethel quickly became too small and two galleries were added after a few years. In 1832-33, a new chapel was built in the site, also of long-wall plan with central windows and outer doors, although with an attempt at the notion of architectural design with full height pilasters , stucco surrounds to the round-headed windows and doorways.
By the 1880s it was the only surviving long-walled chapel in the town... the Cambrian news wrote that it was a thing of beauty to the townsfolk when erected in 1833, but of recent years it was an eyesore to all who had any taste and an exception to the restored places of worship in the town. Money was raised for a new chapel and designs invited from a number of architects.
That chosen was by Thomas Morgan, the Aberystwyth architect, and a member of Bethel. The axis of the new chapel was turned 90 degrees so that it faced onto Baker street, and opened in October 1889. The final costs amounted to just over £5000 and the debt was cleared in 1909. There were 2 houses adjoining the chapel in Upper Portland Street, one for the caretaker, giving access to the rear of the chapel and schoolroom, but demolished ca. 1970 and replaced by 3 flats.
It is a two-storey chapel in an Italianate Classical style. The gable front elevation has three bays, including a raised, pedimented and advanced central bay, emphasised by a pair of polished granite Corinthian pilasters, with three linked arch-headed windows with keystones and divided fluted pilasters and quatrefoil oculi. The chapel façade is constructed of bull-nosed ruubble with Bath stone dressings including plinth band and rusticated quoins. The roof is of Welsh slate with tiled cresting, with a balustraded parapet of urn finals spanning the front elevation and extending partially down the the side elevations. The chapel is entered via paired raised gabled porches. The side elevations are cement rendered, and have sash windows, arch-headed on the upper storey, architraved to the ground floor, and with cambered heads on the basement level.
Within, the chapel has a striking rectangular three-sided raked gallery, with a curved and panelled front, mounted upon cast iron columns with composite capitals. The pulpit, set fawr, and organ panelling have richly foliated carving by Messrs Powell and Son of Abergavenny. The ceiling is plastered with coved cornices and deep foliated ribs radiating from large central roses and smaller roundels, curving down to dentil cornice with advanced corbels.
Source: Cadw Listed Building Record
RCAHMW Inventory Documents
K Steele, RCAHMW, 17 March 2009 - Description: Cause begun 1787; chapel built 1797. Rebuilt 1833 & again 1888/9 to the design of Thomas E. Morgan, Aberystywth. Built in the Classical style, gable entry type. See Site Files [Ecclesiastical] for photos. Status (1998): in chapel use
History: the Baptist cause began in 1766: mid-journey preaching services were held in the area by S. Wales Ministers engaged in the N. Wales Baptist Mission to Anglesey and elsewhere, initiated in 1766. In 1788 the first Baptisms took place and the Aberystwyth Baptist Church was incorporated the same day. In 1789 it was received into membershaip of the Western Association. Meetings and Services were initially held in a dwelling house in Heol y Moch (Queen Street), rented in 1788, and this was licensed as a place of worship in Cardiganshire Quarter Sessions in January 1794: "Certain Meeting house be regulated and used as a House for Assembling a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters in Divine Service"..... The present Baptist church in Aberystwyth is built on the site of the 1st chapel, but with different dimensions. The records of the Court Leet of the Borough of Aberystwyth for 30 April, 1796, refer to permission granted to enclose the present chapel site, which was then described as "a certain part of waste ground on the way to the N. Turnpike Gate ..... And that Cadwalader Jones appointed John Humphreys, Carpenter, to erect and finish a meeting house ..... Of the same dimensions as shown on the plan prepared ... the dimensions being 50 feet long, 26 feet wide and 18 feet high with yard in front 35 yards long".... The new meeting house was opened on 11 May, 1797, and was apparently the first structure to be built outside the town walls. In order to accommodate increasing numbers, 2 galleries were added, but by the 1820s the 1st Baptist chapel building was too small and application was made to erect a second chapel. This was built in 1832-33 - a long-wall chapel facing SE. on to the graveyard ... and the Court Leet noted the dimensions of the plot of land: 119 feet long, 85 feet deep on the N. side and 103 feet deep on the S.. Architectural comparisons could be made, for instance, with the second and long-wall façade chapel built at Talybont by the Baptists; this and the Calvinistic Methodist Capel-y-Garn have survived as long wall façade chapels in their semi-rural sites into the C20.
Movements towards the 3rd chapel began ca. 1873 after a new minister, John Alban Morris, was appointed. A building fund began soon after his induction; by 1888, it had raised œ1250 and with a mortgage (œ900) and loan (œ500) and with an estimated cost of œ300 the church went ahead and invited tenders for an architect's design. The successful architect, Thomas E. Morgan, was a member of Bethel, who had establsihed a practice in North Parade and was employed as architect by the University College. 3 foundation stones were laid on 28 June, 1888 and the new chapel was opened 27-30 October, 1889 with room for 750 seats. One of the contemporary newspaper accounts, in the Aberystwyth Observer, described the new building in detail. The final costs amounted to just over œ5000 and the debt was cleared in 1909. There were 2 houses adjoining the chapel in Upper Portland Street, one for the caretaker, giving access to the rear of the chapel and schoolroom, but demolished ca. 1970 and replaced by 3 flats. The pipe organ was installed, and the opening service was held on 16 March, 1924; it was dedicated as a memorial to church members who had fallen in the 1st World War.
Summary: 3-bay narrow-wall façade of eclectic design, showing influence of Richard Owen's work at Tabernacl and Seion Chapels in Aberystwyth and Gothic motifs, perhaps inspired by the English Wesleyan Church (demolished). Classically-balustraded end wings with hipped slate roofs with tile cresting flanking the centre bay with its raised classical pediment and paired Gothic porches. Basement schoolroom. Open bench seats. Pulpit against rear wall, the baptismal pool below the pulpit.
Exterior:
The Aberystwyth Observer referred to the front wall of hammer-dressed Llanddewi Brefi blue stone with Grinshill dressings.
As it is now, the entrance in the central projection was approached in 1889 "by a wide flight of York stone steps, the porch with 2 doorways richly moulded and carved, and supported by 4 polished granite columns, with richly-carved caps". The end , stair turret bays are set back and are articulated by a high rusticated plinth, rusticated quoins, cill bands and carved impost band, the last described in 1889 as "an enrichment, 10" deep, of conventional leaves....[composed in different sections] of oak, hawthorn, rose, ivy and vine ..... A very good effect in counteracting the plainness of a large space". Diamond-rolled glazing in the windows. The quoined ground-floor window openings of ashlar in the end bays have stopped and chamfered jambs and segmentally shaped lintels, with relieving arches of small stone voussoirs over; 6-pane windows with margin lights and angle blocks. The quoined and round-headed gallery openings have moulded heads, vermiculated keyblocks and the impost bands described above. "Machicolated" eaves and balusraded parapet with urn finials. The cill bands at end gallery level continue across the centre portion as a base to the balustraded apron band to the centre gallery window and to the panelled plinth beneath the paired end pilasters with their pink granite shafts and carved Corinthian caps.
Beneath this band are the gabled porches; the York stone steps rising to them are enclosed by ramped local stone walls with York stone coping, finished off by a low C20 iron rail. The pink granite columns of the twin gabled porches have Gothic foliage caps described in 1889 as composed of "the lily, vine and hops". The columns support round-headed arches with carved and panelled soffits; the porch gables have carved finials, and the tympana are also carved, the NW. gable representing the Sacrament and carved with vine and wheat, and the SE. gable with oak leaves "of Gothic treatment" (Aberystwyth Observer). A dragon carved as a gargoyle is perched between the two. Behind the gables are 2 Caernarfon arched doorways, the ashlar tympana over the door heads with inset carved flower-head roundels. Each doorway contains 2 doors, each of 3 painted and grained panels, with the top panels shaped.
The centre triplet window, termed the "large window" in 1889, resembles, but is not identical to, the gallery window at Capel Tabernacl, Aberystwyth. The window heads at Bethel are of uniform height and the openings contain 2 tiers of glazing: a round-headed lower tier of 8 panes including 2 top quadrant panes, plus margin panes; the circular upper tier is inset with a punched quatrefoil framing a centre roundel; framework of quoined architraves, stop-chamfer jambs, moulded heads and vermiculated keyblocks; the common inner pilasters have panelled lower shafts and fluted upper shafts and carved caps. In the tympanum of the crowning pediment is a moulded circular medallion with "vermiculated" quadrant blocks, that contains the inscription: "Bethel Baptist Chapel 1888".
The 3-storey, 5-bay side walls are as described in 1889: "in cement". Deep rusticated basement, shelving inwards to ground floor; moulded cill bands to ground and gallery storeys, with 10" deep enrichment of "conventional leaves" (Aberystwyth Observer) as gallery impost band. "Machicolated" eaves; the balustraded parapet with urn finials returns from the front across the 1st bay. Sash windows with margin panes and horns. SE. elevation has 4 basement windows, and the NW. elevation 5: 4-pane, plate glass, and under a segmental head. Schoolroom entrance in SE. elevation with painted and grained door of 4 moulded panels. 6-pane "ground-floor" sash windows; flat-arched moulded architraves with "vermiculated" keyblocks. Round-headed gallery windows with chamfered jambs and moulded heads with "vermiculated" keyblocks. Main roof of slate with red tile cresting; bases of 2 former ventilators on ridge; cement rendered stack on SE. roof verge. Graveyard on SE. bisected by path to the schoolroom, descending from Baker Street via a flight of 7 slate steps to slate floor slabs in front of schoolroom door; path lined by high rock-faced walls and railings with circular uprights and pierced, fancy finials, rising alternately to top and mid rails; square, chamfered standards with larger finials of different design.
NE. gable end of plain cement, with bracketed bargeboards and louvred roundel. 2-storey lower rear wing with hipped roof over vestry at "ground floor" and boiler room etc. below.
Boundary walls and railings: the chapel and its graveyard are enclosed on SW., NE., and SE. by walls and railings, gates and gate piers. The railings resmble those lining the path to the basement schoolroom (pl. see above) as do both the gates at the end of the path and the main front gates: all have circular uprights and fancy finials, painted blue-green; chamfered standards with "feathery" finials. The iron gates at the Baker Street end of the schoolroom path have a lock rail inset with quatrefoils; flanking semi-polygonal gate piers of stone with slate coping and rendered urn finials. 3 bays of wall and railings return from the schoolroom gates to the front railings along Baker Street: the wall below the railings is of rock-faced stone in snecked courses under ashlar coping. Panelled corner pier of ashlar has vertical sunk panels on a high rock base; 4-sided gablet finials with "fan" tracery carved in the tympana; the other wall and gate piers along Baker Street are similar. 6 and a bit bays of wall and railings with intermediate wall pier of ashlar on SE. of main front gates, before the chapel steps and porch. 3 similar bays to NW. of main front gates and 3 bays in return along Upper Portland Street. The main front gates are set above 2 York stone steps, that rise to the forecourt which is laid with diamond-block paviours of Ruabon type; a concreted graveyard to either side, on SE. the date plaque from the former Capel Bethel building is set in the ground, and reads: "Baptist/ Meeting house/ rebuilt 1833"; C19 memorials to SE. again.
Rear part of graveyard also contains C19 memorials and is enclosed on NE., NW. and SE. by stone boundary walls and by rear wings of neighbouring properties.
Interior:
Baker Street vestibule: described in 1889 as large, with pleasing and light appearance and with a floor made up of a "well-selected pattern of Godwin's encaustic tiles". Godwin's tiles, for instance, were also chosen by Seddon to accompany "Mr Rust's" mosaic in the crossing floor of Llanbadarn Fawr Church. The tiles are made up in a patterned border enclosing a repeat pattern, laid lozenge-wise (small mid-brown tiles laid on beige lozenge background, both on a larger ground, enclosed by beige tile frame with gold and red motifs on a black ground at the angles). Varnished matchboarded dado - in 1889 of 4' - and with cornice and inset band at the top; pale-pink painted walls over; blue-grey dentil ceiling cornice and plaster rose. Stained-glass window of fine quality backing on to chapel interior: described in 1889 as "large and handsome". It is by Swaine Bourne of Birmingham and is made up of small quarries of floral motifs derived from medieval protoypes, 6 deep and 6 wide, like those used elsewhere by Prichard and Seddon and, no doubt, by other architects. These enclose a stained-glass roundel: "Welsh Baptist Chapel 1889"; floral-patterned margins. C19 wooden settles comparable with those at Capel Bethania, Cardigan.
Pair of doorways at NW. and SE. ends of vestibule: moulded architraves, stop-chamfer and 4-panel doors; the outer doorways lead to the gallery stairs; the inner doorways lead to small inner draught lobbies connecting at right angles with entries to the chapel ground floor; the entries also connect with SE. stairs to schoolroom and with small room on NW. under gallery stairs. The last each have a lower flight of 7 steps below a turn, with the gallery doorway at the foot of each upper flight of 14 steps, rising through an enclosure with matchboarded sides and wooden handrails.
Chapel interior: the "ground-floor" doorways from the Baker Street vestibule have moulded architraves and doors of 4 stop-chamfer panels with brass handles. Wooden-boarded platform beneath seating; red-patterned carpet in aisles. Stop-chamfer panelled timber dado on ground floor, rising to top of seat back height; band and bead over to window cill height. Matchboarded dado in gallery, to above timber window cill height. Pale-beige painted walls, lined as for ashlar, the end wall, behind pulpit, painted grey-blue. Window openings on ground floor with slightly splayed reveals, and raked and painted and grained cills. The round-headed gallery window openings have moulded heads on corbels and facetted keyblocks, the last rising to the moulded and dentil ceiling cornice. The centre-front gallery windows rise above the cornice.
The ceiling is in 1997 as it was described in 1889: "slightly coved all round above a handsome cornice.....with break over each corbel. The rest of the ceiling in panels ....heavily moulded and highly enriched ....with an extremely rich centrepiece" (Aberystwyth Observer). The ceiling in 1997 is painted white. A corbel is set between each window opening; a rib returns from each corbel across the coving at the edge of the ceiling to the moulded rib framing a large rectangular panel, subdivided in turn into 4 smaller rectangles, by similar ribs which merge at the centre into a large circular panel enclosing a plaster rose. Inset within each of the smaller rectangles is a circular moulded panel with crested edging, enclosing a circular plasterwork vent-cum-rose. The ceiling ribs are ornamented with egg and dart moulding and with rosettes on their soffits.
Lighting: in 1889 lighting comprised 4 coronas, suspended from the ceiling, with lighting brackets under the galleries; these have since been replaced and, at present the light fittings, also partly suspended from the ceiling, are of later-C20 date.
Gallery: curved gallery front, the gallery round 3 sides of the chapel. The chamfered and wood-carved gallery beam is supported by 9 circular cast-iron columns, the lower shafts in 1997 painted mid brown and, above a black shaft ring, the upper shafts and foliage caps painted white; in 1889 the columns were painted in 2 shades of green, with caps in pink, gold and white. Iron brackets project from each gallery column and support the stop-chamfer panelled soffit to the cantilevered gallery front; modillions. The gallery front, as in 1889, is "of pitch pine and divided into panels, which are beautifully figured, whilst smaller panels are of carved oak and mouldings of mahogany" (Aberystwyth Observer). The wider, beautifully-figured panels - 9 each side - alternate with square panels of carved oak, with zig-zag band and dentil cornice over; integral clock presented by David Thomas, Aberystwyth, in aedicule projection enclosed by ebonised wood columns.
Seating: open bench seats with stop-chamfer panelled backs; painted seat numbers on shaped and chamfered and flat-topped bench ends; book boards with metal communion glass holders below.
Ground-floor seating: all seats face forward except for 2 blocks of seats each side at Sedd Fawr end which face on to the side of the pulpit and Sedd Fawr. Seats stepped up towards back of chapel.
Paired centre block of seats with 6-panel seat backs; numbered on its SE. side 22 (rear) to 34 and, on its NW. side, 35 (fr.) to 46; continuous seat divider of 2-panel depth. The 2 front seats are narrower where they originally accommodated the American organ, but now they make way in the centre for an upright piano, labelled "Duck, Son & Pinker, Ltd., Bath & Bristol".
The single side blocks facing forward have 6-panel seat backs and are numbered 9 (fr.) to 21 on SE. & 48 (rear) to 60 on NW.. The 2 single blocks in front of them both face sideways on to the side of the Sedd Fawr and pulpit; on SE. side of the chapel, the NE. block is numbered 1 (fr.) to 4 and the SW. block 5 (rear) to 8. On the NW. side, the SW. block is numbered 61 (fr.) to 64, and the NE. block 65 (rear) to 68. Seats 1 to 4 are narrower, with 2-panel backs, so as to allow for the stairs down to the schoolroom; 5 to 8 have 5-panel seat backs.
2 steps up to Sedd Fawr enclosure with curved front corners, described in 1889 as the "Communion pew", the enclosure faced, as in 1889, with wood panels - moulded and varnished - beneath an open work balustrade of cast iron with hardwood handrai, and with table at centre front. Sedd Fawr benches with turned legs and scrolled arms, the latter returning to large newels by Sedd Fawr steps with square and chamfered caps and gadrooned acorn finials.
Pulpit rostrum: also with curved front corners, faced with similar moulded panels and cast iron balustrade, but between these two tiers is an intermediate tier of carved oak panels enclosed by ebonised pilasters with carved wood caps and bases; some of the oak panels are removable so as to allow the congregation sight of baptisms in the pool beneath the pulpit floor. Small ebonised engaged columns also flank the centre pulpit projection, the upper part of which is faced with 2-bay arcading which encloses 2 carved and round-headed panels; lectern on sloping brackets over. 5 steps up each side to pulpit rostrum, with a landing each side above the 4th step; the landings connected in 1889, via the present fine wood single doors of 4 stop-chamfer panels, with small vestries, now present only on the SE. side. Behind the pulpit is a large white-painted feature, described in 1889 as "a well-executed architectural design in plaster with above it a large and handsome stained glass circular window". This comprises 3 blocked round-headed openings with keyblocks, in a framework of paired and fluted Corinthian pilasters.
Gallery seating: the open bench seats have vertical panel backs and continue the ground-floor numbering. Each side from the Sedd Fawr end: 1) block of single seats with 5-panel backs: on NW. side of chapel, numbered 70 (r.) to 73 and on SE. side of chapel, numbered 132 (fr.) to 134; 2) block of paired seats of 3 seats depth with 5-panel backs. On NW. side of chapel, numbered 74 (fr.) to 76 on NE. side of block and 77 to 79 on SW. side. On SE. side of chapel, numbered 126-128 on SW. side of block and 129 (r.> to 131 on NE. side. 3) comprises a block of paired seats set slightly on a curve round part of the gallery intersection, 3 seats deep, the S. portion fanning out in width towards the rear of the block. Block 3) on NW. side of chapel is numbered 80 (fr.) to 82 on its NE. side and 83 (fr.) to 85 on its S. side. Block 3) on SE. side of chapel is numbered 123 ® to 125 on its E. side and 120 (fr.) to 122 on its S. side. 4) comprises blocks of paired seats set round the gallery intersection and fanning out in width towards the rear. On NW. side of chapel the block is numbered 86 (fr.) to 88 on its N. side and 89 to 91 on its SE. side. On SE. side of chapel the block is numbered 117 ® to 119 on its N. side and 114 (fr.) to 116 on its SW. side. 5) is a paired block in centre front, at back of gallery, set in front of the organ and fanning out in width towards the rear. The NW. side of the block is numbered 92 (fr.) to 94 and the SE. side numbered 111 (r.) to 113. Block 6) is a continuation of 5) and comprises narrow seats to either side of the organ. On NW. these are numbered 95 (fr.) to 98 and on SE., they are numbered 107 (r.) to 110. 7) comprises a block of single seats on either side of the chapel, behind 4) (pl. see above), and alongside and behind the gallery stairs. In block 7) on the NW. side, the front 3 seats are numbered 110 to 102 and the 2 wider seats behind the gallery stair are numbered 99 and 100. The front 3 seats in the SE. block are numbered 103 (fr.) to 104, and the 2 wider seats behind the gallery stair are numbered 105 and 106.
The 2-manual pipe organ dates from 1924 and was built by Frothwell of Harrow (Tuner and Regulator: Wm. Hill & Son and Norman Beard, London). This replaced the original "American organ" which was in 1889 in front of the Communion pew. Like Capel Salem, Porthmadog, the pipe organ stands in its entirety in the rear gallery.
The large schoolroom in the basement was praised in 1889 for being very little below ground. Porch with red and black tile floor at the SE. external entrance. The schoolroom itself has a carpeted floor and painted plaster walls, the end wall painted blue.The window openings have square heads and chamfered jambs. The ceiling girders in the white-painted plaster ceiling are supported by cast-iron columns.The narrower SW. end is stepped up to the rear wall and the stairs here on the SE. connect with the chapel vestibule. The seating comprises later-C20 wood-framed chairs with blue-upholstered seats and some iron-framed wood bench seats with wood plank backs, probably of ca. 1900. A C19 Angelus harmonium against the NW. wall and an upright piano in the NW. corner, labelled "Godfrey, Swansea".
The classroom/ vestry to the rear has a late-C20 patterned carpet, a painted matchboarded dado, cream-painted plaster walls and a white-plaster ceiling. There is a long C19 bench seat along the NE. wall (from the 2nd chapel?) and other seating includes Windsor chairs of C20. At NW. end are bibles and lectern on a table with a gold plush cloth; there are a C19 chair behind it and a chair with tall carved back. Upright piano, labelled "Hamilton & Co., London". The glazed bookcase on the SE. end wall adjoins a 4-panel door leading into a corridor behind (on NE. of) the main schoolroom; this has a partly red and black tile floor; it connects with slate-topped steps to the boiler room on th l.h., and, straight ahead, leads on to the kitchen and to stairs returning to the ground floor of the chapel.
OMJ.; 11/1997-5/1998. Visited 20/11/1997 in company of DJR. And IW and by kind permission of the Minister
Sources: Aberystwyth Observer and Merionethshire News, 2 November, 1889; W. J. Lewis's and A. J. Parkinson's programme notes for Capel visit of October 1987 (e.g., in NMR); B. G. Owens, Bethel Aberystwyth, 1788-1889 (1989).
Courtyard to front of chapel has a new-horizontal circular stone plaque from the old chapel of 1833: "A Baptist Meetinghouse, rebuilt 1833"
Elaborate façade with fine detailing, especially in the double doorway with shallow inset doors. Double decorated pediments over the doorways with a gargoyle between them and nonce decorated panels set into the triangle of each pediment. Romanesque pillars of marble with elaborate capitals in deep relief carving. Panel doors reached by full-width steps.
Elevated free pediment flanked by balustraded balconies - this central portion of the façade is projected forward leaving the two side bays as staircase wings. Shaped plaque with supports; dentilled pediment moulding. Three central windows with mouldings around them, all decorated. Emphatic keystones and a nice quatrefoil design to the windows in the upper façade - three circles in a row crowning three roundheaded uprights below, and the sill of these tied together with on engaged balustrade.
Replied to the 1851 Census as "Bethel ...many of (the congregation) are seafaring men and cannot attend every Sunday".(Anthony Jones) - Built (3): 1888 Source:Capel
- Dated: 1888 Source:Cadw
- Embodied: 1789 Source:Evan James
- Built: 1798 Source:1851 Census
- Built: 1797 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Built: 1789 Source:Jones, Anthony
- Built: 1833 Source:Jones, Anthony
- Built: 1797 Source:RCAHMW
- Built (1): 1797 Source:Evan James
- Cause: c.1787 Source:Evan James
- Cause: 1787 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Church Formed: 1789 Source:Llawlyfr 1998
- Date Of Chapel: 1888 Source:
- Organ Installed: 1924 Source:Capel
- Rebuilt: 1833 Source:1851 Census
- Rebuilt: 1889 Source:BCS
- Built (2): 1832 Source:Evan James
- Rebuilt: 1888 Source:Jones, Anthony
- Rebuilt: 1833 Source:RCAHMW
- Rebuilt: 1889 Source:RCAHMW
- Opened, + Stained Glass: 1889 Source:Cadw
- Architect: 1888 Thomas Edward Morgan, Aberystwyth
- Designer: 1889 William Jones,
- Architect: 1888 William Jones, Ton Pentre
- £ 4500: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 150: 1851 ()
- 500: 1851 ()
- 750: 1903 (Horsfall-Turner)
- 700: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 400: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 1998 (Llawlyfr)
- Chapel: 02/2011 (Site visit)
- Welsh: 1998 (Llawlyfr)
- Materials
- Stone
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Storey: Two Storey
- Style: Italianate
- Gallery: On Three Sides
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Pulpit Position: Rear Wall
- Window Glazing: Florentine Tracery
- Windows: Round-Headed
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Map
- Grid Reference: SN5835381793
- Address: BAKER STREET, 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