- Nprn: 7640
- Cadw Ref: C 4
- Cadw Record No: 16957
- Summary: Park English Presbyterian Chapel was built in 1843. In 1865 it was rebuilt in the Gothic style with a gable-entry plan, to the design of architect Thomas Meak Lockwood. The chapel was furhter modified in the late nineteenth and the late twentieth century but the present structure is substantially that of 1865. Park is now Grade 2 Listed as a good example of a presbyterian chapel by a noted architect and containing a good contemporary interior.
RCAHMW, December 2009 - Description: First chapel built 1843 (re)built 1865. Modified late C19 & late C20. Status (1996): in chapel use.
"This is one of the Home Mission Stations of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists. All the services are carried on in the English language. ...... Ebenezer Powell, Minister" (quote from 1851 religious census data, edited by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, p. 147)
CADW Exterior
Gothic Revival style with bar tracery. Sandstone blocks of irregular sizes laid in courses with slate roof. Gable end facing street has central gabled entrance porch, ordered stone door surround with carved foliated capitals, wooden door. Stone belfry to left with decorated stone buttresses. Windows throughout of Early English, `First Pointed' style with quatrefoil and cinquefoil detail. To rear adjoining school room, sandstone block construction with simple lancet windows. Late C20 single storey flat roofed extension to rear.
CADW Interior
There is a fairly complete contemporary scheme. Arch-braced roof timbers rise from painted stone corbels; there is a decorative timber frieze. 4 and 5 pointed star shapes are motifs which are carried through from the glass in the tracery to pierced designs in the roof joinery and incised shapes on the pew ends. Where the windows are paired they are separated by stone shafts with foliated capitals. At the liturgical W end there is a pitch pine lobby with blind cusped arcading. At the liturgical E end is a central pulpit of similar character with steps up on each side with arcaded balustrading. A door on each side leads off to a schoolroom. Windows have coloured and painted glass in the tracery but are otherwise plain with coloured glass margins. Pews are of pitch pine with painted numbers. On the liturgical E wall are 3 later C19 monuments in Neoclassical style commemorating former ministers and elders of the church; two of them are by Mossford of Overton. The schoolroom has exposed timbers in the roof. - Rear Flat-roofed Ext.: 1980-1990 Source:Cadw
- Sunday School: 1838 Source:CRO
- Built: 1848 Source:CRO
- Rebuilt(1): 1865 Source:Cadw
- Rebuilt(1): 1865 Source:Hubbard, Edward
- Date Of Chapel: 1865 Source:CRO photo
- Manse Built: c.1865 Source:Cadw,
- East Wall Monuments: 1880-1890 Source:Cadw
- Manse Rear Door & Porch: c.1950 Source:Cadw
- Architect: 1865 Thomas Meakin Lockwood, Chester
- Architect: 1865 Thomas Meakin Lockwood, Chester
- Architect: c.1865 Thomas Meakin Lockwood, Chester
- £ 2000: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 320: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 200: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 90: 1851 Other sittings (Religious census)
- 110: 1851 Free sittings (Religious census)
- Chapel: 17/07/1996 (Cadw)
- Chapel: 2011 (Denominational Yearbook)
- English: 1851 (Religious census)
- English: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- Materials
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Gothic
- Plan: Gable Entry
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Map
- Grid Reference: SJ40955375
- Address: CASTLE STREET, HOLT
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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