- Nprn: 8708
- Cadw Ref: AU
- Cadw Record No: 18556
- Summary: Beersheba Methodist Chapel was first built in 1838 and rebuilt in 1856. A chapel house was added in 1860 and the chapel re-roofed in 1871. In 1904 Beersheba was renovated with the addition of a rear extention for the choir, heating and new pews. The present chapel, dated 1856, is built in the Classical/Renaissance style of the gable-entry type. . Beersheba is now Grade 2 Listed as a fine example of a mid-nineteenth century chapel, with an exceptional interior of fine fittings and plasterwork.
RCAHMW, February 2010 - Description: Cause began 1834 & chapel first built 1837-8, rebuilt 1856 (cost £1200); renovated 1904. Building is listed Grade 2. Built in the Classical style, gable entry type. Status (1999): in chapel use.
Large rectangular chapel in renaissance style, with attached chapel house, and associated school/hall.
Slate roof of relatively shallow pitch. Walls of brick with stressed cement mouldings and quoins. W gable has triangular pediment with plain cornice and round ventilation grill as feature in centre of tympanum. Lion heads on cornice behind pediment. Below are three long windows with doors interspersed, all with segmental arched pediments and stressed cement architraves. Windows have square corbels supporting the sills. Doors are panelled, with glass above. Sides have 5 long windows of 17 panes (5x3 plus 2 at top), stressed architraves and segmental arches. East end has (later?) extension which now houses organ and vestry in centre of gable, starting at cornice level, and one window in from side: Pediment, quoins and two side windows as west end. Extension is unattractive five sided addition of balustraded parapet, brick walls with quoins shaped as tuscan style pilasters on first floor, and rusticated cement render on ground floor. Narrow square headed windows with long lower and square opening upper of 9 sq. quarries. Within centre of east wall is rectangular plaque with triangular pediment and inscription "ADDOLDY/METHODD. CALFINAIDD/ADEILADWYD. 1838/AIL ADEILADWYD. 1856/ADNEWYDDWYD. 1904". Doors on either side lead into chapel emerging each side of set fawr.
Interior. Ceiling - highly elaborate plaster ceiling in 5 bays, each subdivided by moulded plaster ribs into quatrafoils and squares. Projecting obelisk bosses and decorated ventilation grills. Moulded cornice on capitals with panelled floral frieze. Frieze is continuous along east and west ends. Walls in gallery and chapel of painted plaster with wood dado, with floral plaster frieze around top of dado, but missing from north wall. Floor of parquet blocks.
Vestibules at west end have decorated frieze as chapel interior, with decorated tiled floor.
Gallery around 3 sides in U shape, raked pews, supported on tapering cast iron fluted composite pillars. Panelled front.
East end has set fawr in centre, with large pipe organ in recess above and behind. Set fawr is rectangular, with projecting reading desk in centre - front and sides are open round arches on square tuscan style pillars, and circles in the spandrels, cone finials on the posts. Chairs around front and sides, table with reading desk centre front, arm chair and side chairs in front of pulpit.
Pulpit: Square with projecting front inset panels with rounded arches and corinthian pillars - double arch on front bay, single arch on arch on side bays. Projecting cornice around top. Winged curving stairs with pine finials and chamfered newel posts. Behind pulpit is frieze of arcading with round arches. Above this is organ set into alcove. Large pipe organ, made by Blackett and Howden - was this area once the site of a west gallery? - alcove is through depressed arch on tuscan pilasters. Organ is reached through door alongside set fawr, and up stairs.
Two brass plaques on south wall - Jane Helen Rowlands 1891-1955; Parchedig John Llewelyn Hughes 1894-1956. North wall - brass plaque to Robert Charles Jones 1846-1925. Plaque on rear of pulpit bench to Y Parch Thomas Charles Williams. Within vestibule are 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 war memorial plaques, and one to Robert Morris Williams, 1920.
Clock in centre of gallery front "S Williams, Bangor".
Immediately adjacent to chapel is small chapel house, recently modernised, with boiler room and outside toilet.
Over road is school house now out of use and considered too dangerous to allow entry because of dry rot. Large building with side extension of snecked rubble with brick quoins and architraves, round arched windows on gable front, segmental arched windows along sides and extension.
There was formerly a Ministers' house at the rear of the school, but this is now altered and modernised and no longer belongs to the chapel.
Visited 03/10/94. - Built: 1837 Source:Religious Census
- Built: 1838 Source:Datestone
- Cause: 1834 Source:I Hughes
- Rebuilt: 1856 Source:Datestone
- Renovated: 1904 Source:
- Date Of Chapel: 1904 Source:
- Architect: 1856 Richard Parry, Llandegfan
- Builder: 1860 Robert Jones,
- £ 6500: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 324: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 50: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 350: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 705: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 1999 (I Hughes)
- Chapel: 2011 (Denominational Yearbook)
- Welsh: 29/07/1997 (Site visit - C James)
- Materials
- Stone
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Classical
- Gallery: On three sides
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Pulpit Position: Rear wall
- Window Glazing: Small Pane
- Windows: Tall Segmental Head
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Map
- Grid Reference: SH55697180
- Address: CHAPEL STREET, MENAI BRIDGE; PORTHAETHWY
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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