- Nprn: 8366
- Cadw Ref: 44/A/34(4)
- Cadw Record No: 4948
- Summary: Salem Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel was first built in 1766, rebuilt in 1809 and again in 1894. The present chapel, dated 1894, is built in the Classical style with a gable entry plan. The schoolroom was added in 1904. Salem is now Grade 2 Listed
RCAHMW, February 2010 - Description: Chapel built 1766 (1787); rebuilt/modified 1809 & 1893/4. Building style is Classical, gable entry type. Schoolroom added 1904. Building is listed Grade II. Status (1998): in chapel use.
Welsh Presbyterian. Probably late C19th facades, later Sunday School. Re-worked longwall chapel of 1809. Notes by S R Hughes, (PI 18/08/96).
The present schoolroom adjoins on l.. The former schoolrrom is set back from the street up a cul-de-sac alongside Capel Salem and was converted from coach house of ca. 1800, with added/altered upper storey. Salem House is a 3-storey, 1-bay house of ca. 1800, with late-C19 top floor, thought to have been converted from either the former schoolroom or coach house (information from Cadw resurvey list of 19/06/1997; OMJ).
CADW Reference
Set back from and above the street line behind a railed forecourt. c1893. Classical, 2 storey. Pebbledash on rubble masonry, stuccoed dressings. Gabled slate roof, deep verges, bargeboards on brackets. 3 bay front. Pedimented centre bay, brackets, plain entablature. Channelled and pilasters to gallery level, 3 round arched windows, broader to centre, moulded arch rings, pilasters, sill band. Small paned glazing with sidebars. Pediments on consoles over square headed ground floor windows, moulded architraves. Similar glazing to above.
Flanking staircase bays, deep eaves on brackets, channelled end pilasters. Lugged architraves to gallery windows, small paned sidebar glazing. Advanced single storey entrance wings to ground floor. Hipped slate roofs, miniature pediments, brackets. Eaves on brackets. Channelled stuccoed elevations. Single round arched windows, (sidebar glazing) set within Tuscan surround of blocking course and entablature on pilasters. Return elevations have similar entablature on Tuscan columns. Panelled double doors below deep rectangular fanlights. Raised forecourt behind walls of squared coursed rubble with plinth, square end and gate piers moulded caps with ball finials, contemporary iron gates and railings. Stone staircase to centre of forecourt up from street.
Semicircular galleried interior. Half domed, ribbed ceiling with flat section incorporating ornate ventilator panel. Impost band to gallery. Raked gallery, curved panelled front with dentils and pilasters. Cast iron columns, annulets, composite capitals. Depressed arcading to deacon's seats. Rich Italianate decoration to carved pulpit, fluted square newels and balusters. Full entablature on fluted Corinthian pilasters with bases surrounds moulded depressed arch with panelled soffits, impost blocks to organ chamber. Angular staircase lobbies, splat balusters to gallery stairs.
Later schoolroom adjoins to left. Pebbledashed with stuccoed dressings. Steeply pitched slate roof with central gable, deep eaves on brackets. Channelled end pilasters and plinth. 3 windows below gable. Tall central round arched window, keystone, pilasters, lugged architraves to flanking windows, "Victorian" sashes, common sill. Unsympathetic vent pipe inserted. Porch to right end elevation. Gabled slate roof, channelled stucco. Cavetto jambs, panelled double doors. Bull's eye window to gable end. Contemporary forecourt wall and railings with dogbars. - Renovated: 1904 Source:BCS database
- Renovations: 1904 Source:Deduction
- Built: 1780A Source:Religious Census
- Built?: 1766 Source:Clough, Shirley
- Built: 1766 Source:Parkinson, A.J.
- Built: 1787 Source:BCS database
- Built: 1787 Source:Deduction
- Date Of Chapel: 1893-1894 Source:Deduction
- Built (rebuilt?): c.1893 Source:Cadw
- Rebuilt: 1893-1894 Source:BCS database
- Chapel: 17/01/1990 Source:AJP
- Rebuilt: 1809 Source:
- £ 3850: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 423: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 580: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 300: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 180: 1851 (Religious Census)
- Chapel: 1995 (Blwyddiadur)
- Chapel: 17/01/1990 (Site visit - AJP)
- Chapel: 30/07/1998 (Site visit - S Clough)
- Chapel: 8/12/2010 (Denominational website)
- Welsh: 30/07/1998 (Site visit - S Clough)
- Materials
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Classical
- Plan: Gable Entry
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Map
- Grid Reference: SH72581767
- Address: CADER ROAD; FFORD CADER IDRIS; PENBRYN STREET, DOLGELLAU
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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