- Nprn: 8799
- Cadw Ref: BC
- Cadw Record No: 19877
- Summary: Libanus Independent Chapel was built in 1844, modified in 1850 and enlarged in 1859. In 1907 the chapel was rebuilt in the Arts and Crafts style. It is a simple building with a gable-entrance towards the road. Libanus was disused in 1999 but is now Grade 2 Listed as a small early twentieth century chapel with strong arts and crafts character and many original features, including a fine moulded plaster ceiling and Renaissance style panelling.
RCAHMW 14 January 2008.
In 2009, planning permission was sought to convert the chapel into two flats,
EBR, 2009 - Description: Chapel built 1844; rebuilt/modified 1850 & enlarged 1859. Rebuilt again 1907 in Arts & Crafts style. Still in use 1998. Status (1999): disused.
"A small Congregational chapel in the Arts and Crafts style" ....."the interior has a finely detailed consistency which retains many original features including a fine moulded plaster ceiling and Renaissance style panelling" (Cadw list description of 20/05/1998).
CADW Referene
Exterior - A small Congregational chapel in the Arts and Crafts style. Rendered, pebble-dashed walls, those to the entrance porch slightly battered with continuous tile dripcourses. Recessed openings with rendered, painted dressings. Slate roof with clay ridge tiles, projecting feathered eaves and verges with plain barge boards, once with finials (now removed). Entrance gable is symmetrically planned; entrance through a central porch with segmentally headed opening. Flanking the entrance are round-headed recesses with 12-pane lower lights under 24-pane leaded top hung casements. Above the porch is a segmentally headed recess with 3x 6-pane fixed lights, above which is the name 'Libanus' and date 'AD 1907' under a tile dripcourse in the gable apex. Side elevations are articulated by 4 mullioned and transomed windows, reflecting the internal subdivision of the chapel into 4 constructional bays. Each window has 4 x 3 leaded panes above the transoms and 4 x 3 panes with glazing bars beneath.
Interior - Entrance through half glazed double doors leads to a rectangular panelled lobby with half glazed side entrance doors. Chapel of 4 roof bays with coved plaster ceiling of deeply recessed panels with moulded dividers, set in from the side walls on scrolled corbels and with panelled soffits, also with moulded dividers. From the ceiling are suspended glass lamp bowls of contemporay date. Walls are plastered, painted, with tongued and grooved boarded panelling to lower half. Fittings are consistently detailed in a Renaissance style: Set fawr opposite the entrance is rectangular and raised by one step; pine-panelled with a moulded rail. Similarly detailed pulpit is canted with side entrances raised by further 2 steps; panelled with fluted piers to angles and moulded cornice. The boarded panelling behind the pulpit is flanked by panelled doors, over which is a strongly moulded modillion cornice, segmentally-arched between the doorways and panelled in the recess below: the segmental arch mirroring the arch of the ceiling. Pews are of pitch pine with central double block and two single blocks separated by side aisles. - Dated: 1907 Source:Cadw (plaque)
- Built: 1844 Source:Religious Census
- Date Of Chapel: 1907 Source:
- Enlarged: 1859 Source:
- Rebuilt Or Modified: 1850 Source:
- Rebuilt: 1907 Source:
- £ 1155: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 150: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 116: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 30: 1851 (Religious Census)
- Disused: 1999 (I Hughes)
- Disused: 2009 Planning permission sought for conversion to two flats (ERB)
- Disused: 2011 (I Hughes)
- Materials
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Arts and Crafts
- Plan: Gable Entry
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Map
- Grid Reference: SH48386698
- Address: FFORDD BARRAS, BRYNSIENCYN
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Currently for sale. Interior has been removed and left in partial state of attempted conversion
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