- Nprn: 7198
- Cadw Ref: DH
- Cadw Record No: 18891
- Summary: The cause at Bethel Welsh Independent Chapel started in 1803, with the first chapel built in 1805, but later rebuilt in 1815 and 1830, and enlarged in 1884.
It is a long-wall chapel buit in a Gothic-inspired style with High Victorian fenestration with sexfoil tracery. The exterior is of colourwashed stucco, topped by a slate roof with bracketed eaves and red ridge tiles. The chapel is entered via paired pointed doors with punched sexfoil overlights below outer porches, topped by two windows with sexfoil tracery and flanking two long pointed windows of a similar style. The side elevations each have two storeys of three-light flat-headed windows. The rear elevation has a large central projection with a main window of octofoil and roundels, and smaller windows with sexfoils.
The chapel interior is distinguished for its high quality moulded and carved work in pitch pine, which includes a four-sided gallery with a richly carved panelled front, mounted upon plain columns, and an exceptionally ornate pulpit with shafted arcading. The ceiling is plastered in six long panels, each with three sexfoil roundels. The organ is enclosed in a gallery with three large iron columns with arches, and is by Rushworth and Dreaper of Liverpool.
Source: Cadw Listed Building Record
RCAHMW Inventory Documents
K Steele, RCAHMW, 17 March 2009 - Description: Cause begun 1803; chapel built 1805. Rebuilt 1815, 1830; enlarged 1884. Building style is Gothic, long-wall entry type. Status (1998): in chapel use.
An eccentric Gothic influenced sidewall façade building with strange windows (septfoil design) and projecting porches. (Anthony Jones) - Remodelled: 1885 Source:Cadw
- Enlarged: 1884 Source:RCAHMW
- Built: 1815 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Established: 1804 Source:Evan James
- Built: 1804 Source:Cadw
- Built: 1805 Source:1851 Census
- Built: 1805 Source:RCAHMW
- Built: 1885 Source:Anthony Jones
- Built: 1830 Source:Anthony Jones
- Built: 1815 Source:Anthony Jones
- Cause: 1803 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Cause: 1803 Source:Evan James
- Date Of Chapel: 1884 Source:
- Rebuilt: 1830 Source:Evan James
- Enlarged: 1815 Source:Evan James
- Enlarged: 1885 Source:Evan James
- Rebuilt: 1815 Source:RCAHMW
- £ 2058: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 470: 1851 ()
- 218: 1851 Standing ()
- 90: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 580: 1903 (Horsfall-Turner)
- 154: 1851 ()
- 540: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 1998 (Blwyddiadur)
- Chapel: 2010 (Site visit)
- Welsh: ()
- Materials
- Rendered
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Storey: Single Storey
- Style: Gothic
- Gallery: On Four Sides
- Plan: Long-wall entry
- Window Glazing: Large Pane
- Windows: Gothic
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Map
- Grid Reference: SN65498955
- Address: TALYBONT/TAL-Y-BONT
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Bethel Welsh Independent Chapel, Talybont
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