- Nprn: 8727
- Summary: Seilo Methodist Chapel was first built in 1826 and rebuilt in 1835 in the Sub-Classical and Vernacular style of the short-wall entry type. A sunday school was added in 1896 and a chapel house in 1936. By 1999 the chapel had closed and services were being held in the Sunday School.
RCAHMW, February 2010 - Description: Cause established (& chapel first built?) 1826; (re)built in 1835; Sunday School dated 1896. Built in the Sub-Classical and Vernacular style, short-wall entry type. Status (1999): services in the Sunday School or vestry; chapel closed.
Large single storey Calvinistic methodist chapel with attached schoolroom/vestry and nearby detached chapel house. Chapel orientated northwest-south east. Chapel has grouted hipped slate roof with rounded ceramic ridge tiles. Hipped slate roof of schoolroom abutts chapel roof at right angles. Pebble-dashed elevations with stressed cement rendered details.
Exterior: northwest entrance front - false ashlar finish, with false ashlar rendered quions at corners. 4 rectangular sash windows (12 paned) with shouldered architraves and projecting slate sills above central porch. Porch has central plain pediment to front of blocking course, which extends above sill height of upper windows. Returned blocking course partly angled inwards to avoid blocking outermost of windows in main façade. Frieze below blocking course, returned to sides of porch - repeating pattern of stylised chalice like uprights. Central doorway with shouldered architraves, straight reveals, T&G double door. Flanked by rectangular 3 paned "T" framed windows with shouldered architraves and projecting cement sills resting on consoles.
Northwest elevation of attached school is stepped back from that of chapel. Up flight of steps with iron scroll ended bannister is central single T&G door. Architrave with rounded shoulders. Above is rectangular slate date stone with stressed cement frame - 1896. Flanking rectangular large paned sash windows with stressed architraves supported on consoles. Small recessed square slate panels below windows. Stressed plinth.
Northeast and southwest elevations are plain with 3 window openings: those in the northeast are of small paned sashes like those to front of main chapel with projecting slate sills; the windows on the southwest side match those fronting the schoolroom, but also have segmental heads and projecting cement sills.
Southeast elevation plain except for 3 rectangular windows in rear wall of chapel.
Interior: porch/vestibule - T&G ceiling, plaster walls to rendered skirting. Chequered quarry tiled floor (protrudes into main body of chapel as far as either side of set fawr). 2 panelled T&G double doors give access to either side of set fawr.
Main chapel - rectangular plaster ceiling with heavy moulded cornice. Large central ceiling rose with 4 smaller arranged in each angle. Foliated decoration including acanthus leaves. Recessed rect. Panel to centre southeast end. Plaster walls with moulded dado and vertical T&G below. Dado mirrors rake of floor. Where windows cut dado, rail and T&G are returned into reveals. Rectangular window openings all have slightly splayed reveals and curved sloping T&G sills. Internal window to rear of southwest wall looks into school room. To right of central window in southeast wall part of a painted inscription "...Y MORWYR..." has been revealed where damp has caused later layers of paint to peel. 2 aisles, 3 blocks of gated pews with plain rectangular panels; pews to either side of set fawr set transversely.
Set fawr - rectangular with opposing side entrances. Panelled front and sides, flat upper rail and plinth. Central projecting shaped ledge with folding desk attached. Internal seating around sides.
Pulpit - 3 bays with projecting central bay. Stairs to entrance on the left. Solid panelled front and sides, moulded cornice, projecting desk. Small cupboard in plinth to front with ball-turned pilasters to either side. Minister's seat within segmental headed recess. Shaped pediment supported on consoles, decorated keystone and flanking pilaster strips.
Stain on north-west wall (and T&G dado) suggests position of former Act of Parliament clock.
Four-panelled door, bolection moulded, in wall to left of set fawr leads to school room.
Interior of schoolroom - T&G panelled vestibule with moulded cornice and opposing four-panelled single doors to either side lead to school room.
The schoolroom has 3 bay ceiling of rectangular plaster panels with principles exposed to tie-beams. Stop-champfered tie-beams rest on corbels. The two large rear bays of the ceiling each have a central roundal with foliated decoration, the front bay is hipped and has two small roundals. Ventilation grill above cornice in south-east gable.
Plaster walls with moulded dado and vertical T&G. The south-east end of the room is taken up by a stage with a fireplace in the south-east wall. On the stage an ornate panelled bench, an eisteddfod chair, a rectangular turned-leg table and a two-pedal organ. 2 banks of original wood and cast iron benches. Central aisle.
Chapel house situated to north-west of chapel. Double fronted, pebble-dashed elevations, small gabled central porch. Pitched slate roof. Two rendered stacks.
Chapel forcourt fronted by mortared rubble wall with limestone block capping. Surmounted by iron railings with foliated spear tops. Matching double gates to chapel, iron posts with urn finials. Single gate to side of house.
GAT; visited 16/05/95 - Restored: 1920 Source:Jones,84
- Built: 1826 Source:Jones,Capeli Mon,84
- Cause: 1826 Source:Hughes, I
- House For Minister: 1936 Source:Jones,84
- Chapel Closed By This & School Used: 1999 Source:Jones,84
- House Conversion: 1817 Source:Jones,Capeli Mon,84
- Rebuitl(1): 1835 Source:Religious Census
- Sunday School: 1896 Source:Jones,84
- Buil: 1826 Source:
- Rebuilt: 1835 Source:
- Altered: 1890 Source:
- Date Of Chapel: 1890 Source:
- £ 700: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 222: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 350: 1999 Sittings (Hughes, I)
- 220: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 150: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 250: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Disused: 1999 Chapel closed, meetings in the Vestry. (I Hughes)
- Disused: 2009 Chapel closed, meetings in the Vestry. (Geograph website)
- Vestry: 2011 (I Hughes)
- Materials
- Rendered
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Storey: Single storey
- Style: Vernacular
- Plan: Hipped Box
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- Grid Reference: SH46699205
- Address: PENGORFFWYSFA,
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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