- Nprn: 7193
- Cadw Ref: 22/E/62(1)
- Cadw Record No: 10799
- Summary: Bethel Baptist Chapel was built in 1849 of dressed stone in diminishing courses, constructed in the simple Round-headed style as a gable entry type. There is a central round-headed doorway with an original three leaf door, over which is a fanlight. There are three round-headed sash windows, tall ones to either side of the door and a shorter one above the door. Over this is a slate plaque set in a semi-cirular opening, with the inscription "Bethel/ Capel/ y/ Bedyddwyr/ a adeiladwyd/ yn y flwyddyn/ 1849".
Internally the vestibule, tiled with red and yellow floor tiles, leads to two gallery staircases. The ground floor contains box pews, and a large sedd fawr with a while tiled baptismal tank set below it. Stairs lead to a pulpit dias with a panelled front, and an organ behind. There is a five sided gallery supported by six iron columns, and containing box pews and a simple bench to the rear. There is an integral gallery clock inscribed "Rodd y Morwyr". On the ceiling is a central moulded plaster rose.
In 1905 (Royal Commission on the Church of England and other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire) there were 260 sittings in the chapel which was valued at £500.
RCAHMW, November 2009
The chapel is no longer in use.
Capel, Spring 2010 - Description: Chapel built 1849 in simple round-headed style, gable entry type. Status (1998): in chapel use.
1849. Gable façade of dressed stone in diminishing courses, with central entry to vestibule at rear of galleried chapel. Plinth; moulded wood bracket eaves cornice; slate roof. Two wide concrete steps to central semi-circular headed doorway with mid-19th century three-leaf door, with fanlight with radiating tracery and margin lights; dressed stone voussoirs. Each door leaf of three-panel height, with shallow moulded centre panel, with a moulded panel at top and flush panel below; probably 19th or early-20th century door handle. Three round-headed sash windows, a short one above the door with date plaque above it and a tall one, lighting gallery stairs and gallery, to each side. Shorter centre window with radiating tracery and margin lights in the head, as to door fanlight; 12-pane window with margin lights below the head. The tall sash windows to the sides are without horns and without margin lights; four large translucent panes in lower half of each window, 12 panes in upper half. Slate plaque in small semi-circular headed opening with voussoirs, the plaque inscribed: "Bethel/ Capel/ y/ Bedyddwyr/ a adeiladwyd/ yn y flwyddyn/ 1849".
Right hand, NW.return elevation is rendered; plinth; carved bracket eaves cornice. Two flat- headed window openings in alignment to both ground floor and gallery; rendered reveals and painted projecting slate cills; sash windows, the lower half of each window of two large panes of translucent glass and the upper half of six panes of clear glass. Similar fenestraton to left hand, SE. return elevation, which is only partially visible externally; this is of stone, with carved bracket eaves cornice, the right hand gallery window opening with stone head.
Rear elevation (behind Sedd Fawr and pulpit) not accessible; contains two tall round-headed windows as in entrance elevation.
Forecourt etc.: concrete path beside NW. elevation; ashphalt forecourt with wide central path of bricks, bounded by garden border edging. Low rendered NW. boundary wall with coping, continued in stone across NW. canted angle, matching similar wall to NE. canted angle; two square gate piers with truncated pyramidal coping; two stone dwarf walls with iron railings extend to centre gate piers and gates; iron railings have square uprights rising to mid and top rails and upward scroll finials with twisted centre spear head. Square gate piers with hipped coping with square centre finials with pyramidal coping. Pair of 19th-century iron gates with quatrefoils in lock rail and with square uprights rising alternately to lock and to curved top rails; iron scrolls above curved top rail; scroll finial. Finials above lock rail as to dwarf wall railings, but with downward turning scrolls.
Interior: largely complete mid-19th century chapel interior.
Vestibule: floor of red and yellow tiles laid in lozenge pattern with black tile border. Painted plaster walls. Raked plaster ceiling (soffit to rear gallery). Three-leaf entrance door in reveals; moulded panels. Moulded rectangular two-light window opening in rear wall of chapel, infilled with probably late-19th or early-20th century frosted glass; canted wall to either side with cream-painted four-panel door (grained surface towards chapel). Lateral flights of 16 stairs to gallery; columnar newel; wood stick balusters to lower steps; handrail only above.
Chapel: wood-boarded floors covered with carpet strip in two main aisles and with brown linoleum in lesser aisles. Cream-painted walls and white-painted window joinery. White-painted plaster ceiling with moulded ceiling cornice. Ornately moulded plaster rose in centre, pale green painted edging to anthemion and palmette border; centre apricot coloured.
Beaded jambs to flat-headed window openings. The window openings in the lateral walls have splayed reveals and flat timber cills, the ground-floor wall panelling continuing into the window reveals.
Raked cills to the tall semi-circular windows in Sedd Fawr and entrance gables.
Woodwork painted and grained pale gold. Box pews on low wood-boarded platforms, the platforms stepped up to lateral walls and to rear of chapel, the pew walls with dark brown top mouldings ramped up from pew to pew. Six paired pews in centre, stepped up from the fourth pew from the Sedd Fawr; recessed and slightly raised panels with moulded panel doors in side pew walls; continuous moulded panel pew divider in centre.
Lateral pews face at right angles the Sedd Fawr and centre pews; moulded panel fronts and doors, the last accessible via the two side aisles on each side of the chapel. On each side, the lateral pews comprise a bank of single pews at either end, and a paired bank of pews in the middle. The front two pews have seat backs of five recessed panels; the back pews are in the form of bench seats with plain panelling behind, and with moulded wall panelling above, at head rest height. Lateral single banks of pews at Sedd Fawr end of four seats depth, the front seats on SE. side removed to make way for the electronic organ.
Sedd Fawr: large Sedd Fawr enclosure, curved at intersections with shallow balustraded parapet with turned balusters; bench seat with red felt cover. White tile rectangular baptismal tank (not seen) below Sedd Fawr. Communion table and flanking chairs on a further, wide, single-step dais. Further step each side below double, four-step flights of pulpit stairs with inner curved scroll strings and outer curved wood balustrade with dark brown handrail. Similar balustraded parapet to rectangular pulpit dais which has panelled front in three tiers, curved at angles, with shallow, flush centre panel, the other panels moulded, including some of the deep lowest panels serving as cupboard doors; dark strincourse continues round central corbelled lectern projection. Pulpit seat in form of two-seater settle, apparently of 19th-century date. Organ formerly behind pulpit.
Five-sided gallery, including canted intersections, supported by six circular iron columns with bands of necking and with octagonal bases; moulded gallery beam; projecting and panelled gallery front, of five panels at NE. end, of three panels to canted intersections, and of thirteen panels to each side; NE. end incorporates clock with circular face, probably of 19th or early-20th century date , inscribed "Rodd y Morwyr". Lateral gallery seating in three tiers comprising two box pews and simple bench along outer walls. On each side, a single bank of pews at Sedd Fawr end with four-panel seat backs, then a paired bank of pews with four and five-panel seat backs. Round the canted gallery intersections there are two paired banks of pews arranged at obtuse angles.
OMJ
25/10/95
Visited 17/10/95 with the permission of and in the company of the Chapel Secretary,
Sources: Y Parchedig W.P.Thomas, Hanes canrif achos y Bedyddwyr yn y Cei Newydd, Seren Gomer (1950?). - Built: 1849 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Built: 1849 Source:1851 Census
- Built: 1849 Source:Plaque
- Built: 1849 Source:Welsh Office
- Built: 1849 Source:Cadw
- Built: 1849 Source:Llawlyfr 1998
- Date Of Chapel: 1849 Source:
- £ 500: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 260: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 60: 1851 Standing ()
- 54: 1851 ()
- 60: 1851 ()
- Chapel: 1998 (Llawlyfr)
- Disused: Spring 2010 (Capel)
- Welsh: 1998 (Llawlyfr)
- Materials
- Stone
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Storey: Two Storey
- Style: Simple Round-Headed
- Gallery: On Three Sides
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Pulpit Position: Rear Wall
- Window Glazing: Margin
- Windows: Round-Headed
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Images from Coflein
Map
- Grid Reference: SN38865965
- Address: MARGARET STREET, NEW QUAYNEW QUAY
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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