- Nprn: 8743
- Summary: Libanus Independent Chapel was built in 1900 in the Simple Gothic style of the long-wall entry type. The chapel is single-storey with an attached schoolroom and modern meeting house extension.
RCAHMW, Fbruary 2010 - Description: Cause established & chapel built 1900. Built in the Simple Gothic style, long-wall entry type. Status (1999): in chapel use.
Single storey chapel with attached school room and modern meeting house. Chapel built in 1900 (according to key-holder).
Pitched slate roof with cross finials.
Entrance porch on west corner of north wall. This has pitched slate roof with red ridge tiles and globe finial. Open timber front and sides, which may be later addition, door to inner enclosed porch with depressed arch and chamfered imposts.
Chapel north and south walls of snecked limestone masonry, with regularly spaced buttresses, and pairs of simple rectangular windows between the buttresses. West gable has four simple rectangular windows arranged in stepped pattern, with two centre windows taller, and relieving arch above these two. Buttresses at the corners. School room attached to east elevation.
Interior. Porch - open timber roof, painted plaster walls, wooden dado with built in umbrella stand and drip tray. Quarry tile floor. Double doors into chapel body, half glazed.
Chapel - open timber roof, four bays with trusses, purlins and rafters exposed. Ventilation grills in two centre bays. Painted plaster walls with wooden dado. Floor of carpeted wood boards.
Two aisles, three banks of straight open pews.
Set fawr - Rectangular with entrances either side front. Solid panelled front and sides with internal bench. Cupboard with reading desk in centre front.
Pulpit - rectangular with projecting main front with three carved upper panels, side bays are balustraded, with bulbous "onion shaped" finials. Open side entrances and fixed rear bench.
Reredos - Wood, of three vertical panels, side posts have triangular tops, and brass brackets with oil lamps.
Pulpit and reredos set into large three-centred arched alcove, which incoporates door through to school room.
Fittings: Clock (comtemporary?) - J W Benson, Ludgate Hill, London. Two wood long-handled oval collecting boxes.
Memorial plaques (i) on S wall, marble, to Robert Pritchard, 1832-1914; (ii) on N wall, war memorial for Owen Williams 1886-1917.
Contemporary school room attached to east wall - modernised interior. Attached modern Meeting house extension on east end of school room.
Chapel forecourt surrounded by limestone wall with double iron railing gate entrance.
Date visited: 4/10/94 - Built: 1900 Source:GAT survey
- Cause: 1883 Source:Capeli Mon,44
- Cause: 1900 Source:Hughes, I
- Date Of Chapel: 1900 Source:Photo
- £ 900: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 180: 1999 Sittings (Hughes, I)
- 250: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 1999 (I Hughes)
- Chapel: 2011 (Denominational website)
- Welsh: 1998 (Blwyddiadur)
- Materials
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Simple Gothic
- Gallery: X
- Plan: Long-wall entry
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still a place of worship
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