- Nprn: 7270
- Summary: The Methodist cause in Lampter started in 1741; Howel Harris is reported to have preached within the town and Daniel Rowland was associated with the society. Tabernacl was built in the town in 1806, but in 1873 a new plot of land was purchased for £450 and Shiloh Methodist Chapel was opened in 1874. the named architect was Hall Caine, Liverpool, but Richard Owen of Liverpool was also involved, being paid £50 on 5th June 1874. the chapel cost in the region of £2000, with nearly £1,400 being collected locally and £170 from the sale of the old chapel and £225 from the chapel house. The datestone from Tabernacl is incorporated into the front wall.
. And is built in the Romanesque style of the gable entry type with an integral spire and tower. Further modifications were made in 1892 and a school and vestry added during the early twentieth centurry The tower and spire were demolished in 1991.
RCAHMW, November 2009 - Description: Cause begun 1743; Chapel built 1775; Rebuilt 1806 & again1874 to the design of Richard Owen of Liverpool. Further modified 1892; school & vestry added early C20th. Built in the Romanesque style, gable entry type. A prominent feature of this Chapel is the integral tower. Tower & spire demolished 1991. Status (1998): in chapel use.
In its own garden setting on the western edges of the town. Built in 1874 to replace Capel Tabernacl (NPRN 14931)to design of Richard Owen of Liverpool (information from Julian Orbach).
Gable façade with entry via centre gabled porch to vestibule at rear of chapel. Probably contemporary chapel house and small vestri wing that is attached to SW. end of chapel. Separate vestri of 1920s or 1930s on SW. again.
Front elevation of snecked stone with ashlar dressings. Gable above recessed centre bay with end pilaster strips with ashlar dressings rising to a raking stringcourse parallel to gable coping; paired pilaster strip on SE., the outer and projecting strip rising to main gable coping and kneeler of ashlar. End turrets, each housing gallery staircases and windows. Projecting centre porch with gable and containing a segmentally-headed doorway with label and label stops; slate plaque over, inscribed "Shiloh/ 1874" plus scroll lamp bracket. Triplet of semi-circular headed window openings over porch; pilaster jambs and dressed-stone archivolts; fixed windows with margin lights. Quatrefoil over with dripstone with foliage stops. End stair turrets with slate hipped roofs, the NW. turret with courses of shaped slates and with wrought-iron finial. The front of each turret contains a tall, semi-circular headed window opening framed in ashlar and containing a window with margin lights, of four-panes depth, plus two quarter lights under the arched heads.
Both NW. and SE. side elevations rendered, each with four semi-circular headed window openings with rendered reveals and cills, containing semi-circular headed sash windows with margin lights. Slate roof.
Lower chapel house and small Vestri range to rear, at right angles to the chapel, and projecting beyond it at either end; cement rendered walls with NW. and SE. gables; slate roof with both a lateral and a ridge chimney. A twelve-pane sash window on both ground and first floors in each end gable; SW. lateral wall containing similar windows, three below and one above; gabled porch at east end. NE. elevation of small Vestri with doorway on right hand containing door of four stopped and chamfered panels and plain fanlight.
The Ysgol Sul and the Vestri Fawr appear to have been added in the 1920s or 1930s and comprise a commodious and detached building at the rear, faced with pebbledash and with a slate roof. There are NW. and SE. gables, each with a gable stack above a keyed oculus, the SE. gable with small lean-to addition at ground floor, and the NW. end with two four-pane transom and mullion windows with curved heads to top lights. Four tall six-pane windows with similar heads in SW. lateral elevation. NE. lateral elevation with a similar window but also with a gabled projecting porch at NW. end, containg a semi-circular headed doorway with eight-pane overlight and two doors of three moulded panels each; at SE. end, three steps lead up to a semi-circular headed doorway with six-moulded panel door and fanlight.
Front boundary wall with inset panelled iron railings and similar iron gates enclose the chapel and its grounds from the street. 19th-century stone boundary walls at sides.
Interior:
Vestibule: black, red and gold encaustic tile floor. Gallery staircase at either end, lower and upper flights of seven steps each, with two steps on the turn, and with gallery door of four panels above the turn. Plaster lintel supported on ornate plaster bracket over foot of stairs. Inner vestibule wall in form of canted projection with matchboarded dado; in each canted side, a four-panel wood door with barley-sugar twisted handle, flanking a centre window of translucent glass with ornate brown and gold glass margin lights.
Chapel interior:
Matchboarded dado. Plastered walls, scribed to resemble ashlar. Semi-circular headed lateral windows with chamfered jambs, splayed reveals and flat timber cills, the archivolts painted grey and scribed to resemble ashlar. The lateral windows comprise 19th-century sash windows with horns and margin ights, the margin lights partly of etched and coloured glass, viz.: in the heads, plus small angle blocks at the bottom corners and in the sides; bottom margin lights in some windows retain gold etched crosses on intertwined lozenges and circlets. First World War memorial window on NW. side.
Four-bay ceiling with deep cove over lateral walls; recessed centre portion. The ceiling is divided into white plaster panels by dark-stained ribs descending to fluted corbels. The four square centre panels each contain a moulded cornice and an inner circular panel of enriched plaster decoration - acanthus leaves etc. - and painted green and lilac. King-post roof trusses apparently over.
End gallery; the wood-cased gallery beam,partly stopped and chamfered and partly with beaded moulding, is supported by two fluted iron columns, with egg and dart necking and acanthus leaf cap. Gallery front faced with sixteen deep and moulded panels with integral centre clockface inscribed "Rhodd Jane Evans".
SW. end wall with inset four-panel door to each side of pulpit. Organ and organ case of 1940, the organ case installed by T.D.Richards, cabinet maker (see below for organ).
Raked floor; wood platforms beneath pitch pine bench seats with stopped and chamfered panel backs with shaped Gothic ends, the last chamfered also, and with flat tops. Single lateral banks of seats numbered 6-15 and 38-47, with paired centre bank of seats, numbered 16-26 on the NW. and 28-37 on SE.; seats 1-5 face the Sedd Fawr at right angles.
The 1940 organ projects into the Sedd Fawr enclosure. Rectangular Sedd Fawr with canted front angles and lateral entries; faced with two tiers of panelling with pierced and patterned wood panels above; handrail; square newels with caps, ornamented with pattern of pierced circlets on red ground; ball finials. Similar work to upper panels of pulpit front and to caps of both newels and finials on pulpit stairs. Turned wood balustrade to pulpit stairs with quatrefoil string; rectangular pulpit projection faced with moulded panels above stringcourse and with matchboarded panels below it; lectern with carved brackets above pilaster strips also with a red ground. Gothic chair each side at foor of pulpit stairs. On pulpit dais a two-seater mid-20th century seat in a 20th-century Gothic idiom, in memory of The Reverend W. Llewellyn Davies, Minister from 1917-49.
Gold-painted organ pipes arranged in three bays, outer bays of seven pipes each and centre bay of five. Organ case newels with pendants and caps; panelled base of five bays width, of Columbian pine. Two-manual organ by William Hill and Son and Norman Beard Ltd. And set in front of Sedd Fawr; a fine-sounding organ but, in 1995, needing very expensive repair and, on the day the writer visited, an electronic organ was being installed.
Registration: l.h.: pedal: swell to pedal, great to pedal, sub-bass 16, Lieblich bourdon 16, Bass flute 8
middle: swell: Lieblich Bourdon 16, Geigen Diapason 8, Echo Viole 8, Lieblich Gedacht 8, Lieblich Flute 4, Gemshorn 4, Closed horn 8, Tremolo, Sub-octave, Octave, Unison off
r.h.: Great: Swell to great, Open Diapason 8, Stopped diapason 8, Coro Dolce 8, Wald Flute 4, Principal 4.
The pitch-pine gallery seats have simple shaped ends with raked tops; stopped and chamfered panel backs (date of 1906 scratched on side of one pew, by member of congregation presumably). Paired bank of five seats depth in centre; single bank of seats at sides. Gallery windows contain attractive 19th-century etched glass in the form of gold fleur-de-lys on translucent glass; red and white etched margin lights with blue and white etched angle blocks.
The small Vestri appears to be part of the 1874 work. Wooden boarded floor, matchboarded dado, painted-plaster walls and flat plaster ceiling. Black late-19th century fireplace with glass-fronted two-door bookshelf set in wall beside it. Two twelve-pane sash windows with flat timber cills in SW. wall and one similar window in NW. wall. Photographs of former Ministers and Deacons hang on walls for instance, those serving the Chapel in the 1920s. On NE. wall, early-19th century date plaque from the old Capel Tabernacl which Shiloh replaced; it reads: "Tabernacl/ Addoldy perthunol I Cyfwndeb y Methodistiaid/ Calfinaidd/ A Adaeiladwyd yn y Flwyddin/ MDCCCVI". Late-19th century harmonium, no. 183018 by Mason and Hamlin, Boston, USA.
Registration: Bourdon Pedal Dolce 16, Bourdon Pedals 16, Viola dolce 4, Contra bassa 16, Viola 4, Eolian harp 2, Vox humana, Serraphone 8, Flute 4, Melodia 8, Corno 16, Voix celestes 8, Octave complex, pedal coupler.
The interior of the Vestri fawr has a matchboarded dado, painted plaster walls, picture rail and moulded wood ceiling cornice. Fireplace with detached corcice over at NW. end. Vestri separated from kitchen by full-height slatted wood screen wall with two inset four-panel wood doors; circular door handles inscribed "Thornborough & Co., Tottenham, London".
OMJ
22/11/95
Visited 5/10/95 with the permission of the Minister - Tower & Spire Demolished: c.1991 Source:Lloyd, Thomas
- Built: 1806 Source:James, Evan
- Built: 1775 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Cause: 1743 Source:James, Evan
- Rebuilt: 1806 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Rebuilt: 1874 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Vestry: 1912 Source:JO index
- Rebuilt: 1874 Source:A Jones Index
- Date Of Chapel: 1874 Source:
- Architect: 1874 Richard Owens, Liverpool
- Architect: 1912 Llewellyn Bankes Price, Lampeter
- Architect: 1874 Hall Caine, Liverpool
- £ 1900: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 350: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 50: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 5/10/1995 (Site visit/ Blwyddiadur)
- Chapel: 2011 (Site Visit)
- Welsh: ()
- Materials
- Rendered
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Storey: Single Storey
- Style: Romanesque
- Gallery: End Gallery
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Pulpit Position: Rear Wall
- Window Glazing: Margin
- Windows: Round-Headed
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Map
- Grid Reference: SN57474817
- Address: LAMPETERLAMPETER
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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