- Nprn: 8328
- Cadw Ref: 44/C/17(1)
- Cadw Record No: 15463
- Summary: The first Caersalem Methodist Chapel was built in 1825 and then sold to the railway company c.1865. A new chapel was built on a new site, away from the railway line, in 1866, to the design of architect W H Spaull of Oswestry. This was modified/extended in 1911. The present chapel, dated 1866, is stone built in the Classical style with a gable-entry plan. The building is now utilised as a shop but is Grade 2 Listed as a finely-detailed chapel retaining much of its contemporary interior.
RCAHMW, January 2010 - Description: Cause established 1760; first chapel building of ca. 1825; sold to the railway company ca. 1865 (information from Board of Celtic Studies database) and rebuilt on a new site away from the railway line and to the design of W H Spaull of Oswestry. Bought pipe organ 1908. Rebuilt/modified again ca. 1911 to provide 775 seats (Bd of C. Studies database); do added porches date from then? Grade II listed gable-entry chapel in the Classical style, of ca. 1865, with alterations of ca. 1911. Present status [1990] : other.
Cadw list description refers to a wooden gallery supported on fluted iron columns with stiff-leaf caps; gallery front of raised and carved panels with dentil cornice; dentil ceiling cornice; complex plaster decoration to ceiling incorporating geometric and foliate motifs (OMJ 13/10/1997).
CADW Reference
A mid-Victorian 5-bay rectangular chapel with show-piece facade
in eclectic Classical style. Built 1866 as the Caersalem Calvinistic chapel at a cost of ú2,300; alterations c.1900. Snecked dressed stone with sandstone detailing; medium-pitched slate roof.
Symmetrical facade with large bracketed pediment and a 2-light, round- arched window with blind oculus and spandrels. This is contained within a large round-headed arch with simply-moulded entablature, plain projecting key and pilasters. In front of the pedimented facade, storeyed porches were added C1900. These have their entrances on the inner return walls. On the street-facing sides they have sandstone quoins and twin arched windows (that to the far R now blocked), with fluted pilasters projecting keys and composite capitals. Above these are single eliptical oculi with 4 projecting keys. Moulded and bracketed cornices with surmounting balustrades with bulbous turned balusters and moulded rail; plain cill course. The fenestration and balustrading is repeated on the outer return walls and the oculi appear also on the inner returns. The porches have slated pyramidal roofs with simple lead finials. They are linked in the centre by a slightly recessed double-arched loggia, balustraded as before and with moulded voussoirs, projecting keys and composite capitals surmounting black marble columns. Stepped access.
Plain pebble-dashed sides with segmental windows to basement, ground and first floors with rendered surrounds, projecting keys and cill courses; plain rectangular bay at E end.
Interior: Wooden gallery supported on fluted iron columns with stiff- leafed capitals and foliate brackets. The gallery face has raised and carved panels and columns and a dentilated cornice. Dentilated cornice to ceiling with large, complex plaster decoration of geometrical and foliate forms.
A good, finely-detailed chapel retaining much of the contemporary interior in a prominent position on the High Street.
Group value with other listed items on the High Street.
Reference: E Jones, A History of Barmouth and its Vicinity, 1909, 64. - Altered: c.1900 Source:Cadw
- Alterations: c.1911 Source:Deduction
- Rebuilt: 1866 Source:Cadw
- Date Of Chapel: 1865-1866 Source:Deduction
- Built: 1825 Source:
- Modified: 1911 Source:
- Architect: 1866 William Henry Spaull, Oswestry
- £ 3300: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 360: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 675: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Other: 31/01/1995 (Cadw/ Blwyddiadur)
- Materials
- Stone
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Classical
- Plan: Gable Entry
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- Grid Reference: SH61431566
- Address: HIGH STREET, BARMOUTH
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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