- Nprn: 7866
- Cadw Ref: A16/H/6(7)
- Cadw Record No: 16845
- Summary: Capel Mawr Methodist Chapel was built in 1770, rebuilt in 1785, refronted and enlarged in 1837 and further modified in 1864. The chapel was rebuilt again in 1876, to the design of architect Richard Owen of Liverpool, in the Sub-Classical style of the gable entry type. Capel Mawr is now Grade 2 listed.
RCAHMW, December 2009 - Description: Chapel built 1770; rebuilt/modified ca. 1785. Refronted and enlarged 1837/8 (cost £1700) & further modified !854 & 1862/4. Rebuilt/modified again 1876 to the design of Richard Owen of Liverpool. Built in the Sub-Classical style, gable entry type. Status (1999): in chapel use
Eseciel Phillips's house [in Cemetery Road] was a meeting place for the early Methodists of the area: from here, in the mid C18, one of the leaders of the Methodist Movement, Peter Williams, escaped from the hands of Sir Watkins's bailiff. He was later caught and imprisoned in the dog kennels at Wynnstay (extract from Dennis W Gilpin, Rhosllannerchrugog Johnstown Ponciau Pen-y-cae: a collection of pictures, v. 2 (Wrexham: Bridge Books, 1992), plate 21.
The first chapel of 1770 had an earth floor and a heather roof (extract from Jon James's notes for Victorian Society's visit of 19/06/1999).
CADW - Exterior
The chapel is built of roughly coursed rubble and slate roof with red tile cresting. The adjoining school room is brick. Entrance in gable facing street: pedimented gable with inscribed stone in the apex; paired 4-panelled doors with leaded overlights in moulded architraves in Tuscan portico porch, flanked by round-arched windows. 3 similar windows above, with keystones to heads. 4-bay return elevations have camber headed windows to ground floor, and round arched windows with stressed keystones above: all are small-paned with margin lights. In the rear gable wall, a later brick projection housing the organ is flanked by high-set round arched windows. The chapel is linked to the school room to its left by a hipped-roofed entrance block, with gabled porch flanked by 3-light mullioned and transomed windows. School range comprises 5-bay single storeyed hall, articulated by buttresses, with blue brick impost bands linking the round-arched windows. Gabled porch on inner face.
CADW - Interior
The body of the chapel is a wide space, with slightly inclined floor, 2 off-centre aisles and canted gallery round 3 sides. This has panelled balustrade and is carried on cast-iron columns with Corinthian capitals. Plaster ceiling divided into panels, with rosettes to light fittings and vents. Coloured glass window from entrance lobby into chapel. Wrought metal scrolled posts carry moulded rail enclosing set fawr; trefoiled panelled wood pulpit, with curved stairs with turned baluster rails to either side. Organ in arched recess to rear. Fittings include grained wood seating, and a wood low relief war memorial tablet; also one pictorial stained glass window of 1927, by Jones and Wallis. Other windows have coloured glass margin lights. Corridor with deacons' meeting room connects the chapel to the school room: a hall of 5 bays with glazed brick dado timber roof trusses, divided by a moveable screen from a smaller room to the rear. - Built: 1770 Source:
- Built: 1770 Source:Cadw (plaque)
- Built: 1770 Source:James, Jon (plaque)
- Built: Pre 1800 Source:1851 Relig. census
- Met Stryt Y Gof: 1747 Source:James, Jon
- Met Hse, Cemetery Road: 1750A Source:Gilpin, Dennis W.
- Date Of Chapel: 1876 Source:James, Jon
- Stained Glass Window: 1927 Source:Cadw
- Known As Capel Mawr: Post 1785 Source:James, Jon
- Branch Of Adwy'r Clawdd: 1747 Source:James, Jon
- Chapel Site Deeds: 18/10/1770 Source:James, Jon
- Re-fronted & Enlarged: 1837 Source:Cadw (plaque)
- Extensively Re-designed: 1863-1864 Source:James, Jon
- Extended: c.1800 Source:James, Jon
- Repairs & Rebuilding: 1929 Source:Gilpin, Dennis W.
- New Chapel: 1785 Source:James, Jon
- Schoolroom Built: c.1900 Source:Cadw
- Built: 1770 Source:
- Re-built/ Modified: 1785 Source:A Jones index
- Re-fronted: 1837-1838 Source:
- Re-modified: 1862-1864 Source:
- Re-built/ Modified: 1876 Source:SRH
- Surveyor: 1770 W. Pierce,
- Shopkeeper: 1747 John Griffith,
- Occupier: 1750A Eseciel Phillips,
- Architect: 1837 W. Pierce, Holywell
- Designer: 1863-1864 John Pritchard,
- Architect: 1876 Richard Owens, Liverpool
- Architect: 1785 Charles, Rhosllanychrugog
- £ 9609: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- £ 1600: 1837 Cost of building church (Jon James)
- 1200: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 500: 1851 Free sittings (Religious census)
- 500: 1851 Other sittings (Religious census)
- 100: 1851 Standing (Religious census)
- 590: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 15/01/1996 (Cadw)
- Chapel: 2010 (Denominational Yearbook)
- Welsh: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- Materials
- Stone
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Sub Classical
- Gallery: On three sides
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Window Glazing: Leaded
- Windows: Round-Headed
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Map
- Grid Reference: SJ29084628
- Address: BROOK STREET, RHOSLLANERCHRUGOGRHOSLLANNERCHRUGOG
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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