- Nprn: 7173
- Cadw Ref: 22/H/1(1)
- Cadw Record No: 16077
- Summary: The cause for Bryn-Mair Independent Chapel started in 1766, although this chapel was first built in 1833 and rebuilt in 1897. In 1838 the Three Counties Festival was held at the chapel, very successfully. When Owen Thomas started as minister in 1860, there was a local revival and a number of new members were added to the chapel, allowing a number of repairs and redecorations to be carried out.
The present chapel, dated 1897, is a square building, designed in the Simple Round-Headed style. Bryn-Mair is now Grade 2 listed for its attractive late nineteenth century interior.
In the 1905 census (Royal Commission on the Church of England and other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire) there were 400 sittings in the chapel which was valued at £900.
RCAHMW, November 2009 - Description: Chapel built 1833; rebuilt 1896-7. Building style is simple round-headed, short-wall entry type. Status (1998): in chapel use.
Detail window/door surrounds. Rendered painted stone/slate hipped roof. Primitive, lateral entry type with classical detail. 1993 PCNPA.
CADW - Exterior
Whitewashed stucco with hipped slate roof and apex ventilator. Square plan. Round arched windows and cambered headed doors, all details 1896-97. Doors ledged with overlights, pilasters and moulded arches. Two long windows to centre and two shorter similar over door, with 2-light timber tracery, plain stucco surrounds and bracketed sills. Centre date plaque in similar surround. Plain 2-storey two window left side and rear.
CADW - Interior
Attractive 1896-97 interior with 3-sided gallery on five iron columns marked T. Jones and Sons, Carmarthen. Gallery front is curved at corners and has long panels of ornate pierced cast-iron. Simple cornices above and below. Pulpit at entry end with baluster steps each side, two Gothic arched panels to front and baluster panels each side. Plaster arch to wall behind with ornate brackets. Porches inset each side of pulpit under galleries. Timber boarded ceiling in panels, coved edge and cornice. - Restored: 1897 Source:PCNPA
- Remodelled: 1896-1897 Source:Cadw
- Renovated: 1897 Source:Anthony Jones
- Built: 1833 Source:1851 Census
- Built: 1836 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Built: 1833 Source:PCNPA
- Built: 1833 Source:Plaque
- Built: 1897 Source:Plaque
- Built: 1833 Source:Cadw
- Built: 1833 Source:Anthony Jones
- Rebuilt: 1897 Source:Evan James
- Date Of Chapel: 1897 Source:
- £ 900: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 400: 1903 (Horsfall-Turner)
- 400: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- : 1851 ()
- 150: 1851 Gallery ()
- Chapel: 1998 (Blwyddiadur)
- Chapel: 2011 (Blwyddiadur)
- Welsh: ()
- Materials
- Rendered
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Simple Round-Headed
- Plan: Square
- Window Glazing: Round Headed
- Windows: Tall Round-Headed
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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