- Nprn: 7160
- Cadw Ref: 22/B/156(4
- Cadw Record No: 10322
- Summary: Little Chapel, claimed to be the smallest nonconformist chapel in Wales. It originated as an outbuilding to one of the houses in Laura Place and blocked openings in the Castle Street elevation suggest it may have been a coach house. Later it served as the estate office for the Nanteos estate and its refronting in classical style presumably dates from this period. As early as 1775, the Epiphany Quarter Sessions had ordered that a certain place or house ... situated in the town of Aberystwyth be set apart for a place of Religious Worship for those people called Quakers. The location of this house has not been established. Apart from this early episode, the Society of Friends appear to have had no formal meetinghouse until the end of the nineteenth century. In 1898, George Eyre Evans observed that the Quakers met regularly in the small hall in New Street. By 1905 the building was a library and bookshop but the following year it had reverted to a Unitarian meetinghouse,seating 50 and was refronted by by architect John Hartland of Cardiff. shared with the Quakers from 1947. The last regular Unitarian service was held about 1976
RCAHMW November 2009 - Description: Built c.1810 used as an estate office then as a coach house and stable. Acquired by Quakers c.1853. In use as a bookshop, end-C19th. Unitarian chapel 1906. Built in the Sub-Classical and Vernacular style, gable entry type. See Site Files [Ecclesiastical] for photos. Status (1998): disused
Used by the Quakers for Meeting for Worship in the 1970s, and said (Anthony Jones) to have been used by them for the same purpose before 1906.
Rhif_cofnd: 1160; 1150 - Built: 1810 Source:A. Jones
- "built" -converted Coach Ho: 1810-1815 Source:Anthony Jones
- Closed: 1976 Source:G.A. Ward
- Coach House And Stable: 1837-1848 Source:Rate Books
- Galloway's Bookshop: 1800-1899 Source:Cadw
- Museum Use: 1976 Source:Cadw
- Nanteos Estate Office: Post 1834 Source:Cadw
- Unitarian Chapel: 1906 Source:Cadw
- Change Of Use To Quaker C: c.1853 Source:Rate Books
- Unitarian Meeting House: 1906 Source:I.Ap Nicholas
- Qauker Meeting House: 1970-1979 Source:Jenkins, O.M. (visit
- Quaker Meeting House: 1800-1899 Source:Cadw
- New Facade: 1905-1906 Source:Anthony Jones
- Date Of Chapel: 1906 Source:
- Architect: 1905-1906 John Hartland, Cardiff
- 50: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- Disused: 25/08/1996 (Site visit)
- Converted: 2011 Residential (Site Visit)
- Materials
- Stone
- Rendered front elevation
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Storey: Single Storey
- Style: Classical
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Windows: Flat-Headed
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Images from Coflein
Map
- Grid Reference: SN58128165
- Address: NEW STREET;CASTLE STREET, ABERYSTWYTH
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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