- Nprn: 7326
- Cadw Ref: 22/I/26(5)
- Cadw Record No: 16710
- Summary: Capel-y-Ffynnon Chapel was built in 1849, by the architect Charles Jacob Davies of Cenarth. Constructed of ashlar stone with a slate roof, the chapel has a gable entry plan. Designed in the Gothic style, the front is ornate with rich detail. The façade is dominated by alrge Perpendicular traceried window with five lights, above with is a triangular plaque with cusped decoration. Below is a pointed-arch doorway set in a triangular stone projection, all three features flanked by two full height, stepped buttresses with cusped decoration to the heads. To each outer bay is a narrow lancet opening with sash windows, marginally glazed. The corners have a plain pier to eaves level. The side elevations are of rubble stone with tall, pointed arch windows with marginally glazed sashes. The rear elevation has a stepped triplet with similar small paned glazing.
The schoolroom was built in 1840. By c.1990 the chapel had been converted into residential accommodation but is Grade 2 listed for the unusual use of Rickmanesque Gothic in an early Victorian chapel.
In 1905 (Royal Commission on the Church of England and other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire) there were 310 sittings in the chapel which was valued at £1250. - Description: Chapel built 1848-9 in Gothic style, gable entry type. Schoolroom built 1840. Status (1998): other (converted to residential ca. 1990).
"Dated 1878 & a typical meeting house of the area except that the details are Gothic".... Ashlar stone with stale roof; pointed doorway and windows. Ty Capel Ffynon: "Probably contemporary with the Chapel and also Gothic in character" .... Stone with slate roof and end brick stacks. " storeys. 3-window front with sash windows; 4-centred doorway arch (information from Welsh Office and MHLG provisional list for Teifiside R.D., surveyed 1962-1963).
CADW Exterior
Gothic style. Tooled sandstone ashlar front with slate roof. Ornate gable front with unusually rich detail. Centre big timber-traceried pointed 5-light window with traceried head and moulded stone hoodmould with carved stops. Curved triangular gable plaque. Pointed door in gabled projection with moulded coping, shoulders and 2-step side buttresses. Shafted pointed door surround wirh chamfered head, stone voussoirs and hoodmould with carved stops. Moulded plinth and band at porch coping level, both continued around flanking buttresses, carried up straight above first string to second under tall panelled Gothic upper part, the panelling with cusped head under stone gable. To each side, buttress gable is echoed as set back under eaves, before recessed side bay with narrow pointed lancet, hoodmould and moulded string above, under short band of triangular panelling. Small paned sashes with marginal glazing bars and intersecting tracery to heads. Raised plain outer pier up to eaves.
Rubble stone sides and rear, three-window sides with long pointed windows, stopped hoodmoulds and margin-glazed sashes. Rear has stepped triplet, with stepped hoodmoulds, outer lights with similar small-paned glazing, centre light blank. Short pieces of ashlar each side rising from moulded caps at eaves level and finished with sloping tops, like buttresses. - Built: 1849 Source:1851 Census
- Dated: 1878 Source:Welsh Office & MHLG
- Built: 1848-1849 Source:Cadw
- Converted To House: c.1990 Source:Cadw
- Date Of Chapel: 1848 Source:
- School: 1840 Source:Evan James
- Architect: 1848-1849 Charles Jacob Davies, Cenarth
- £ 1250: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- : 1851 Gallery ()
- 310: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 7: 1851 Pews ()
- 34: 1851 Pews (204 sittings) ()
- Converted: 31/01/1997 Dwelling (Site visit)
- Materials
- Stone
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Gothic
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Window Glazing: Tracery
- Windows: Gothic
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- Grid Reference: SN35375195
- Address: PENTREGAT/PENTRE-GAT
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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