- Nprn: 7248
- Cadw Ref: Q22/M/17(1)
- Cadw Record No: 17753
- Summary: Neuadd-Lwyd Welsh Indepdendent Chapel was first built in 1746, licensing an earlier schoolhouse that a Mr Jones had built on his land at Neuadd-Lwyd for the education of his children. Originally affiliated with Ciliau, they later broke this connection, and in 1796 they got their first settled minister, Mr Thomas Phillips. At that time there were 120 members, and during his care the numbers increased dramatically and the chapel was rebuilt in 1819. Mr William Evans was ordained in 1835, and the church had to again rebuilt in 1852. The chapel was later rebuilt again in 1869 and 1906.
It is in the sub-Classical style, with an unpainted stuccoed exterior beneath a pitched slate roof. The chapel is entered via a central double door with crescent overlight in the Venetian style gable front, which has four pilasters and a central arch reaching up to the pedimented gable. Above the door there are two small round-headed windows, and to either side there are two tall round-headed windows with two-light tracery below a roundel. All fenestration in the front elevation has raised surrounds with shoulders and keystones. The side elevations each have three long round-headed windows.
The chapel interior is plain and without a gallery. The pews are of pine, and face a curved great seat with balustrading. The pulpit has Gothic panelling and balustraded sides, together with steps to either side, and sits before a large plaster arch. The ceiling is of boarded panels with moulded ribs and a four-pointed central motif.
In 1905 (Royal Commission on the Church of England and other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire) there were 250 sittings in the chapel which was valued at £1000.
Source: Cadw Listed Buildings Record
RCAHMW Inventory Documents
K Steele, RCAHMW, 17 March 2009 - Description: Cause begun & chapel and schoolroom built 1746; rebuilt 1819, 1869 & again 1906. Built in the Sub-Classical style, gable entry type. Status (1998): in chapel use.
The mother church of the Independent cause in this area. First built 1746, rebuilt 1819, and the present building dating from 1906. Set on raised ground at Neuaddlwyd, above a ?farm track leading off from the Mydroilyn road; a large burial ground extends to S. and SE.
Three-bay pedimental gable façade to NE. with centre entry; cement rendered; plinth; giant pilasters to entablature; rendered raking course and plain bargeboard. In each end bay, a tall semi-circular headed two-light window of ten panes depth, including rounded top panes under a glazed circlet and spandrels; plain rendered archivolt with keystone and lugs. Entablature arched over centre bay which contains semi-circular doorway with pilasters, archivolt and keystone; three steps in front; plain deep reveals; two moulded doors of four moulded panels each under a segmental head; leaded crescent fanlight over with glazed circlet and spandrels. Paired window over entrance, single window lights of five panes depth and semi-crcular heads; common rendered cill. Above this, a semi-circular slate plaque with gilt-lettered inscription: "Neuaddlwyd /Addoldy /yr /Annibynwyr /yr hwn /a adeiladwyd /1746 /ac a ail /adeiladwyd /1819 /Adnewyddwyd 1906". Circular louvred vent in pedimented gable; terracotta finial. Datestone also below NW. window.
Rendered thrre-bay side elevations. Slate roof with two metal vents. Semi-circular two-light windows of ten panes depth including glazed quadrant lights; rendered reveals. Rear elevation with circular roof vent.
Concrete forecourt in front of chapel entrance, bounded on NE. by low parapet to C19 stone boundary wall. Early-C19 dwarf stone wall, railings and gate on SE. of forecourt, at entrance to burial ground; dwarf wall with slate coping; railings have slender circular uprights with tripartite silver-painted finials; C19 stone gate piers with truncated pyramidal coping and ball finial; iron gate with circular uprights alternately to lock and top rail; winged arrow-headed finials. On NW. entrance forecourt bounded by C19 stone quadrant wall and railings extending on SW. to chapel entrance gates, the railings then returning SW. along road boundary as far as the chapel stables. Railings similar to SE. gate in chapel forecourt. Chapel entrance gates have octagonal iron gate piers with caps and tiered octagonal finials. The dwarf wall and railings alongside the road include two stone gate piers and enclose a grass area on which stands a veined white marble statue of a winged angel, its arms sloping, and its hands crossed and holding a wreath, the statue set on an upward tapering red and black granite pedestal; the NW. pedestal panel is inscribed with the names of the Chapel's ministers, the SW. with the names of preachers raised in the church, and the NE. panel bears a bronze medallion of David Jons, first missionary to Madagascar.
Vestibule interior: matchboarded vestibule with doors in canted sides projects into ungalleried chapel. Encaustic tile floor. Matchboarded ceiling. Inner vestibule wall with stained glass window of two round-arched lights containing medieval motifs on lozenge quarries. Pairs of doors to chapel; each door of two moulded panels.
Vestibule has deep cornice with brattishing within the chapel interior which has a wooden-boarded floor, raked down towards the Sedd Fawr. Matchboarded dado. Pale-grey painted walls; window openings with pale-blue chamfers to jambs, white-painted splayed reveals and sky-blue painted flat timber cills. Deep white-painted and moulded plaster ceiling cornice. Sky-blue painted border to dark-brown stained and matchboarded ceiling. Ceiling divided into twenty-four horizontally-boarded panels by moulded and chamfered ribs; two circular vents along centre rib. Electric heating and lighting: six pendant and circular combind heat and light fittings, later C20.
Varnished seats with shallow matchboarded panel backs and shaped ends, rounded at the top and bearing number plaques; wood bench seats. Centre block of eleven seats depth with snecked seat divider: nos. 15 (narrow full-width seat at back) to 22 (23 removed for piano) on NW. and nos 24 to 31 (& 15, see above) on SE.. Single lateral blocks of eleven seats depth are numbered 3-14 on NW. and 32-42 on SE. At right angles to sides of Sedd Fawr & pulpit, seats 1 & 2 on NW. and 43 & 44 on SE.
Curved Sedd Fawr enclosure faced externally with two tiers of varnished pine panelling (moulded below and matchboarded above) below a low balustraded parapet with three-quarter round top moulding, wood bench seat aith shaped ends as to other chapel seats and red and white upholstered cushion.
Flanking flights of pulpit stairs, straight, five steps; C20 Turkey-style carpet; balustrades of turned balusters with half mouldings at top; chamfered newels with chamfered caps and ball finials to pulpit stairs and dais. Front of pulpit dais with curved balustraded parapet at each end, flanking rectangular pulpit projection, the last with four vertical panels of diagonal matchboarding below pulpit string; two panels above string, of two-light blind Gothic arcading below quatrefoil. Matchboarding at back of pulpit dais with integral minister's bench seat with shaped ends, as elsewhere. Above, a tall semi-circular headed arch, white and blue painted, and picked out in gold; fluted brackets; panelled pilasters. Circular clock to r.h. of pulpit; brown moulded case; on the clockface: "Neuaddlwyd 1917: O.Davies, Lampeter". First World War Memorial tablet on l.h.. Oak Communion table, oblong, with stopped and chamfered legs and, in raised Gothic letters along the front: "Gwnewch hyn er cofa amdanaf". Three wood-framed early-C20 chairs, the pedimented open backs with two curved braces, and the taller, Minister's chair behind the Communion table.
Single-manual harmonium, early-C20? By John Malcolm & Co., London (also marked Daley & Co., Aberystwyth).
Registration: Forte, Bass coupler, Principal 4', Piano 4', Diapason 8', Echo 8', Bourdon-bass 16', Vox humana, Clarionet 16', Dulcet 8', Dulciana 8', Vox-celeste 8', Melodia 8', Treble coupler, Forte.
A stone burial ground wall separates the NE. side of the burial ground from the track alongside it. What remains of the C19 SE. boundary has a stone wall; a grass bank and hedge on SW., the burial ground enclosed on NW. by the chapel house and adjoining properties. A SE. extension is bounded on NE. by a grassy bank and hedge, by a hedge on SE., and by a block wall of ca. 1964, the last bearing a plaque commemorating the donation of land by Mr & Mrs Benjamin Jones.
The burial ground retains many C19 headstones, some of early C19. Chest tombs to Ministers and their families near NE. end of chapel, including that to The Reverend Thomas Phillips (1771-1842) with stone sides and slate slab top inscribed, e.g., "forty-seven years Pastor of the Church / assembling at this place and other neighbouring /churches .....And thirty-one years Tutor of a useful Academy [at Ffos-y-ffin] / for the education of young Men devoted to Christian ministry".
Former chapel stables (and first-floor vestry?) adjoins SW. end of chapel. Whitewashed stone rubble front wall; slate roof; two C19 fixed-pane sixteen-pane windows above, and a flight of eleven stone steps with slate treads and iron handrail at right hand end, rising to C19 planked door. To right hand below, wide flat stone arch of stone blocks above wooden-boarded doors. Possibly altered opening to left hand (trace of blocked arch?); pair of wooden-boarded doors with r.h. six-pane window.
The former chapel house projects and adjoins on SW.. Three-bay stone rubble front; slate roof with stone stack to l. and brick stack to r.. Cambered-headed window openings with white-painted reveals and twelve-pane sash wndows, three above and one to each side of centre wooden-boarded door with overlight. The chapel house forms part of a single-storey and white-painted stone rubble row which extends SW. and uphill along the road; slate roof; end stack; grass garden strip in front.
OMJ
5/2-7/2/96
Visited 14/12/96 by kind permission of the Minister and met at the chapel by the Chapel Secretary
Sources: Tegwen Parry photo album no. 3 (NLW, Dept. of Paintings & Maps).
NMR investigator photos: 960032/24, 27, 29, 31-37. - Restored: 1906 Source:Plaque
- Built: 1746 Source:Jenkins, O.M.
- Built: 1746 Source:Evan James
- Built: 1746 Source:Plaque
- Built: 1906 Source:Cadw
- Cause: 1746 Source:Evan James
- Founded: Pre 1746 Source:Cadw
- Ty Capel: 1850A Source:Cadw
- Date Of Chapel: 1906 Source:Jenkins, O.M.
- Angel Monument: 1914 Source:Cadw
- Renewed: 1906 Source:Evan James
- Rebuilt: 1800-1899 Source:Cadw
- Rebuilt: 1819 Source:Evan James
- Rebuilt: 1819 Source:Plaque
- Rebuilt: 1819 Source:Jenkins, O.M.
- Architect: 1906 David Davies, Penrhiwllan
- £ 1000: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 390: 1851 ()
- 250: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 72: 1851 ()
- 70: 1851 Standing ()
- Chapel: 28/01/1997 (Site visit)
- Chapel: 6/12/2010 (Denominational website)
- Welsh: ()
- Materials
- Rendered
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Storey: Single Storey
- Style: Sub Classical
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Pulpit Position: Rear Wall
- Window Glazing: Florentine Tracery
- 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