- Nprn: 7279
- Summary: Neuadd Methodist Chapel was built in 1868 in the Simple Round-Headed style of the gable entry type. TThe gable facade has end pilasters and decorative craved and fretted bargeboards. There is a central doorway, over which is a round-headed gallery window, with two taller, similar windows to either side. Internally there is an end gallery, and a tall semi-circular arch behind the canted pulpit.
In 1905 (Royal Commission on the Church of England and other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire) there were 200 sittings in the chapel which was valued at £582.
RCAHMW, November 2009 - Description: Chapel built 1867-8 in simple round-headed style, gable entry type. Chapel house built 1869. Status (1998): disused
Neuadd chapel and burial ground, and adjoining chapel house and vestry are set above the lane to Cwmtudu, about 100ms. NW. of country road junction between Nanternis, Caerwedros, Llwyndafydd and Cwmtudu roads; Neuadd Farm to S.. Enclosed from the lane by drystone walls and an entrance gate. The mid-late C19 chapel is not in ecclesiastical use and is up for sale; the chapel house is still inhabited.
The chapel has rendered walls and a slate roof with centre vent. Semi-circular headed window openings of varying height and containing windows with round-arched top panes and with margin panes, with 3 margin panes at the top. Front windows contain late-C19 or early-C20 small-grain frosted glass.
Gable façade of 3 bays with centre entry; plinth; end pilasters rising to top gable with brown-painted, carved and fretted bargeboard, with an openwork cross in the bargeboard apex. 3 late-C19? Steps - yellow brick risers and slate treads - to doorway in segmental arch; 2 two-leaf doors of brown-painted diagonal boarding; plain segmental overlight. A semi-circular gallery window over containing 2 semi-circular window lights of 4 panes with margin panes and 3 margin panes in the head; glazed circlet and spandrels over. A tall semi-circular headed staircase-cum-gallery window to each side; of 6 panes depth and with margin panes as above. Lateral elevations each have 3 semi-circular headed windows, like the flanking windows in the front elevation; each middle window with an opening pane; later-C20 reeded glass; glazing bars of mid-C19 type. Small metal vent grilles below. Plain NW. gable wall at rear.
Vestibule interior: encaustic tile flooe (red/brown, olive green, gold/beige and black, arranged in pattern of small squares, hexagons and octagons). External wall: matchboarded dado, beige-painted plaster over; external doorway in segm,ental arch, each of 4 door leaves of 3 panels depth; strap hinges with sub-hinges at fold. Raked white-painted plaster ceiling; circular rose with moulded border. End gallery staircases: inner wood stick balustrades with moulded handrail and turned newel; lower flights of 5 steps, 3 steps on turn and upper flights of 5 steps with 1 further step to gallery. Inner vestibule wall: partition of diagonal matchboarded panels in stopped and chamfered frame and containing window in centre and chapel doors in canted sides. Centre window with intersecting tracery; etched glass apart from amber-glass spandrels and small blue top spandrels; 6 panes wide and 3 deep; white glazing bars. Chapel doors of 4 diagonally matchboarded panels in stopped and chamfered frame; similar 2-panel overdoor.
Chapel interior: wooden-boarded floor. Matchboarded dado. Painted-paster walls. Windows with beaded jambs and pale-yellow gloss-painted cills; splayed reveals, painted brighter yellow from impost upwards; framed by pointed moulded archivolts on foliage stops. Flat timber cill to centre gallery window and wood stick baluster guard. White-painted 5-bay ceiling, ceiled flat at collar and with sloping sides; brown-painted, pegged and scarfed roof trusses. Centre vent in openwork decorative wood frame (fleuron in circle in square with rebated sides); moulded octagonal loft entry over gallery. Lathe and plaster visible at W. corner.
End gallery: gallery beam with 3-panel soffit and supported by 2 cast-iron columns, the shafts largely fluted, with caps; carved brackets under gallery front, paired under 2 inner pilaster projections. Gallery front of 6 panels of diagonal matchboarding grouped into 3 bays by pilasters with caps and bases.
Varnished? Seats with panelled backs, the panels slightly raised and fielded; shaped ends with flat tops. Block of 7 paired seats in centre, the rear seats narrow; snecked seat divider. 8 seats on SW., and 7 on NE.. Also on NE., 2 seats and an end corner bench seat face at right angles on to side of Sedd Fawr and pulpit; 2 similar seats only on SW..
Sedd Fawr enclosure curved at intersections; faced with varnished panels, sunk externally and slightly raised and fielded internally; wood bench seat with shaped ends; beige carpet. Straight flanking pulpit stairs of 6 steps with splat balusters and moulded handrail; newels are square below and octagonal and stopped above, square caps and Jacobethan type finials; upper newels with corbels. Front face of pulpit dais is slightly curved at ends: splat balusters above vertical boarded panel at base. Central pulpit projection with canted sides, the last each with a diagonal matchboarded panel both above and below pulpit string, the upper panels with round-arched heads; front of 2 panels width. Tall semi-circular arch behind pulpit, inset at base with blind timber Gothic arcading of attached shafts and shaft-rings and trefoil heads; 8 narrow bays and 1 wider centre bay; dark-brown, the panels painted and grained. Cream-painted gloss paint above, the tall arch enclosed, like windows, by pointed hoodmould (beige-gold painted plaster).
Gallery seating: wooden-boarded floor. Varnished (once painted?) seats; bench seats enclosed by panel backs, slightly raised; flat-topped and simply-shaped ends. Block of 4 paired seats in middle, divided by moulded top rail; the 2 rear seats with 10-panel backs, and the front 2 with 8-panel backs, the front seats flanked by a block of 2 single seats (4-panel backs). 4-panel partitions, similarly panelled, enclose top of stairs. Bench seat of similar design in centre at rear (minus back and sides of other seats).
An ashphalt path leading down to chapel gate also branches off to chapel house and vestry. C19 chapel gate (see Towyn Chapel, New Quay, NPRN: ); silver-painted iron; circular uprights, alternately to scroll-panelled lock rail with tripartite finials; 2 tripartite finials and twist and scroll panels above top rail; overthrow. Square gate piers of large blocks of stone; ashlar coping with gablets. Drystone wall with C20 wood rail fence parapet; higher stone wall at N. end by garage.
C19 2-storey chapel house : pebbledash walls; r.h. cross-wing projects forward with gable stack; slate roof; C20 wood-framed windows, above and below in cross-wing; C20 door in main wing; window above and below on l.. C19 internal stair with chamfered square newel; pilastered rear fireplace surround. Bathroom lean-to on SW..
Adjoining 1st-floor vestry set back on NE., above garage (former stable); wooden-boarded door in NE. elevation accessible by concrete ramp and steps; wooden-boarded pointed sash window under centre gable; small triangular window-cum-door to garage /stable below. Vestry last used in 1960; golden-varnished matchboarded dado. Plaster walls. Matchboarded ceiling with sloping sides. Windows with chamfered jambs. Fireplace with moulded architrave in E. corner.
OMJ
20/1/96 and 27/2/96
Visited 19/1/96
NMR Investigator photos: 960036/26-29, 31-36A - Built: 1868 Source:Evan James
- Founded: 1867 Source:Evan James
- Chapel House: 1869 Source:Evan James
- Date Of Chapel: 1868 Source:
- £ 582: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 200: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- Disused: 31/01/1997 For sale (Site visit)
- Materials
- Rendered
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Storey: Single Storey
- Style: Simple Round-Headed
- Gallery: End Gallery
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Pulpit Position: Rear Wall
- Window Glazing: Margin
- 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