- Nprn: 7246
- Cadw Ref: (WO)4/58
- Cadw Record No: 9923
- Summary: Rhydfendigaid Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel was first built, together with a schoolroom, in 1794. It was then rebuilt in 1802, 1827, and 1859-60. It was later remodelled to the design of John Arthur Jones in 1907.
It is in an Italianate Classical style, with a rubble stone exterior with cut sandstone dressings and long quoins stones, below a pitched slate roof with deep eaves upon paired brackets. The chapel is entered via a central round-headed doorway in the gable end, flanked by two long round-headed windows set into arched recesses with stone voussoirs, with a smaller round-headed window above the doorway. The side elevations each have three long round headed windows. The rear elevation is rendered has has two round headed windows with 1907 glazing bars.
The lobby of the church is striking for its floor of elaborate encaustic tiles. Within the main chapel there is a U-plan gallery with a pitch pine front and modillion cornice below, mounted upon cast iron columns with scrolled leaf capitals. Below there are three blocks of pitch-pine pews, with the outer rows canted inward. At the front of the chapel is a large pulpit platform, with panelled angle piers and a balustraded section to either side of the pulpit. The plaster ceiling is divided by plaster ribs with roundels to the centre and at the intersections. On the rear wall is a 1907 mosaid of a dove with a biblical inscription.
In 1905 (Royal Commission on the Church of England and other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire) there were 850 sittings in the chapel which was valued at £2100.
Source: Cadw Listed Building Record
RCAHMW Inventory Documents
K Steele, RCAHMW, 20 March 2009 - Description: Chapel & schoolroom built 1794; rebuilt 1802, 1827 & renewed 1859/61. Rebuilt 1907 in Romanesque style, gable entry type, to the design of John Arthur Jones (cost £1198. 5.11). Status (1998): in chapel use.
"Dated 1859 and a good example of this type of building retaining the Georgian tradition." Stone-built with slate roof and bracketed eaves; tall reound-headed windows with wood tracery and round-headed doorway (information from Welsh Office and MHLG Provisional list for Tregaron R.D., surveyed 1962; OMJ).
Calvinistic Methodist (on plaque)
Presbyterian (on notice board)
(Anthony Jones) - Dated: 1859 Source:Welsh Office
- Built: 1859 Source:Plaque
- Built: 1794 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Built: 1859 Source:Anthony Jones
- Date Of Chapel: 1907 Source:
- Rebuilt: 1907 Source:
- Renewed: 1859 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Rebuilt: 1802 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Rebuilt: 1827 Source:Evan James
- Interior: 1907 Source:BOW
- Architect: 1907 John Arthur Jones, Aberystwyth
- Contractor: 1907 Dan Jones, Pontrhyd
- £ 2100: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 850: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 252: 1851 ()
- 250: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- : 1851 Standing 27ft by 15ft ()
- 78: 1851 ()
- Chapel: 22/01/1997 (Site visit)
- Welsh: ()
- Materials
- Stone
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Storey: Two Storey
- Style: Romanesque
- Gallery: On Three Sides
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Window Glazing: Fan Headed
- Windows: Round-Headed
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Images from Coflein
Map
- Grid Reference: SN73056665
- Address: PONTRHYDFENDIGAID
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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