- Nprn: 7292
- Summary: The Wesleyan cause was established in the village around 1806 by the Rev.Edward Jones of Bathafarn. Early meetings were held in the open air, until E evans, pen-pistyll, with others decided to build a small chapel. Land was obtained on a lease from James Lewis, Greyhound.
Peniel Methodist Chapel was started in March 1808 and finished the following september. In 1844 Daniel thomas of Ffinant, bought the land that the chapel stood on, and a new larger chapel was built. It was rebuilt again in 1867, and then altered in 1902. The present chapel, dated 1902, is built in the Classical style of the gable entry type. The chapel is constructed of bath stone with a slate roof. In the gable is a rectangular slate plaque inscribed: "Peniel Chapel/ Built in 1808/Rebuilt in 1844/ and partly reconstructed/ renovated in 1902".
By 1998 Peniel had fallen into disuse and The building was transformed from Peniel Wesleyan Chapel to purpose built Youth Centre with financial help from the Big Lottery Fund, The Tudor Trust and Ceredigion County Council. The project took four years to complete and cost £261,000 in total.
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 £600.
RCAHMW, November 2009 - Description: Cause begun 1806 & chapel built 1808; modified, altered or rebuilt 1824, 1844, 1867 & 1902. Building style is Classical, gable entry type. Status (1998): disused
First chapel of 1808 (March to September) replaced by present chapel of 1844, with a reconstruction of 1902 (re-opening service of 20/3/03). It is not in ecclesiastical use and is up for sale. Pedimental gable façade to Lon Wesley with centre entry; grey-painted render. Dressings of painted beige/gold render, resembling Bath stone, to windows, fluted end pilasters and strincourse at eaves/ pediment level (similarly-coloured window dressings in NW. return elevation). Brown-painted bargeboard with wrought-iron finial; slate roof with crest tiles. A tall semi-circular window opening each side, with eared architrave, plain reveals and each containing a two-light wood-framed window, six-panes deep, the top panes arched, below a glazed circlet and spandrels. A later grey-panted brick porch (not shown on 1889 OS map, but shown on 1905 map). This has a wooden-boarded door with overlight, a wooden-boarded gable, a brown-painted moulded bargeboard and a wrought-iron finial and slate roof. In the gable, a rectangular slate plaque inscribed:"Peniel Chapel/ Built in 1808/Rebuilt in 1844/ and partly recostructed/ renovated in 1902". Cruciform vent over.
Side elevations each with buttress with single offset on SW.. In NW. (l.h.) side, two tall segmentally-headed window openings, containing two-light, wood-framed windows of seven-panes depth. One similar window in SE. return, with outline of former gable wing on its NE.. Rendered NE. rear gable end wall with two semi-circular headed windows, also with plain reveals and projecting cill: two-light, wood-framed, of four-panes depth with glazed quadrant panes in the head.
Chapel forecourt/ front garden enclosed by stone walls and railings, both along Lon Wesley and returning to the front angles of the chapel building. Railings have circular uprights rising alternately to top and middle rails; tripartite finials. Gate piers of large blocks of dressed stone with pyramidal coping; one slate step to iron gates at canted SW. front corner; uprights and finials as to railings, but with the top rails set on a curve. Yellow brick gate pier at SE. corner.
Porch interior: red and black tiles laid lozenge-wise; ochre/gold-painted walls; white-painted boarded ceiling. Stone step up to painted and grained vestibule doors of two moulded panels each.
Vestibule interior: red and black square tiles laid lozenge-wise. Brown skirting; gold-beige painted walls; raked white-painted plaster ceiling. A gallery staircase of wood at either end : 17 steps rising through a turn and 2 further steps in gallery to rear lateral aisles; brown sisal/ coconut matting strips; no gallery doors, but turned balusters to upper flights; large turned newels with chamfered caps and ball finials. Inner vestibule wall has central C19 rectilinear window flanked by doors to chapel. Window with white-painted glazing bars and red, green and gold margin panes that enclose 5 panes of etched glass and 4 of translucent glass, including larger centre pane. One step up to flanking chapel entrances: moulded architraves on plinth blocks, pairs of two-moulded panel doors, painted and grained; sunk panels facing chapel.
Chapel interior: matchboarded dado. Plastered walls, pale-green painted behind pulpit, elsewhere white. Window openings with chamfered edges, splayed reveals, raked cills and white-painted window frames; small-grain frosted glass in windows. Moulded archivolt to the two pulpit windows. Moulded white ceiling cornice; flat white-painted plaster ceiling with white-painted centre rose, the last with moulded border, small inner circular panel inset within larger outer circular panel containing 14 white acanthus leaves; 3 vents, 2 with grilles. Three-sided gallery; gallery beam with simple moulded-panel soffit supported by 4 slender cast-iron columns, painted a mottled white and vermillion (C20); simple caps. Rectangular gallery front faced with moulded panels: 8 to end, 13 to sides.
Open-ended bench seats of bleached pine with shallow panel backs, with round top moulding returning over the plain and slightly shaped ends that have an incised cross near the top. Single lateral blocks of 7 seats depth and two shallow panel backs; matchboarded seat at rear; seats at front at right angles to Sedd Fawr. Paired block of centre seats of 7 seats depth, the front seat cut away in centre (for former organ?); snecked and panelled pew divider; matchboarded seat at rear.
Two steps up to rectangular Sedd Fawr enclosure, also enclosing pulpit stairs and faced with chamfered vertical panelling; ?vinyl tile floor; bench seat with ends shaped similarly to ground-floor chapel seats. Carpeted pulpit dais with flanking and carpeted pulpit stairs with turned balusters, large turned newels with chamfered caps and ball finials; rear dais balustrade of 19 stick flanked by 3 turned balusters. Front of dais with stick balusters and vase newels flanking centre pulpit projection with 2-panel front with lectern brackets over 1/4 columns at angles, with stopped and chamfered bases and caps; 2-panel cupboard below.
Gallery bench seats with square panelling to backs, the panels beige-painted in a brown frame; vermillion top rail. Shaped ends with flat tops, as below, but painted and plain; simple shaped seat dividers. Lateral blocks of seats of two seats depth. Each side from Sedd Fawr end, single block of seats (5-panel backs); paired block of seats (10-panel back at front and 8 at rear). At end of gallery. Wide seat block of 4 seats depth: front seat with 10 and a bit panel back, 2nd seat back of 10 panels, and 3rd and 4th of 14; to each side of 4th seat, a narrow seat behind gallery stairs.
OMJ
16/11/95, 12/12/95 & 9/2/96
Visited 12/12/95 by kind permission of the Minister
Sources: W.J.Davies, Hanes Plwyf Llandysul (Llandysul: J.D.Lewis, 1896). Cardigan & Tivyside Advertiser, 20/3/1903. - Built: 1808 Source:Plaque
- Built: 1808 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Built: 1808 Source:1851 Census
- Cause: 1806 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Date Of Chapel: 1902 Source:
- Rebuilt: 1844 Source:Plaque
- Rebuilt: 1844 Source:Horsfall-Turner
- Rebuilt: 1844 Source:Evan James
- Partly Reconstructed: 1902 Source:Plaque
- Rebuilt: 1902 Source:Evan James
- Alterations - New Front: 1903 Source:JO index
- Architect: 1903 J.D. Thomas, Llandysul
- £ 600: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 150: 1851 ()
- 150: 1851 ()
- 200: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- Disused: 06/02/1997 (Site visit)
- Converted: 04/2011 Youth centre at cost of £261,000 (Lesley Parker)
- English: ()
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- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Storey: Two Storey
- Style: Classical
- Gallery: On Three Sides
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Pulpit Position: Rear Wall
- Window Glazing: Florentine Tracery
- Windows: Tall Round-Headed
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- Grid Reference: SN41794064
- Address: LON WESLEY, LLANDYSULLLANDYSUL
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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