- Nprn: 8832
- Summary: The chapel cause at Brynrefail was established in 1852, but the date of the building of the first church is unknown. The current chapel bears a date stone of 1896 and is built in a Sub-Classical style with an entrance in the gable end. In 1999 the chapel was still in use.
RCAHMW, July 2009 - Description: Cause established [registered?] 1852; chapel house of early-C19 date; the chapel bears a date-stone of 1896. Built in the Sub-Classical style, gable entry type. Status (1999): in chapel use.
Single storey Calvinistic Methodist chapel in the Renaissance style with adjacent school house. Both have gabled pitched roofs. The chapel roof has red ceramic ridge tiles. Pebble-dashed elevations; cement render for details such architraves, string courses, banded rustication and plinths.
West entrance front - slightly jutting cement raked cornice, pebble-dash to cement string course with arched centre above a cement, arc shaped tablet with the date 1896. Central small 4 paned, clear glazed, round cross-window, with round arched hood-mould. Low porch, below, with flanking window bay. Entrance bay is topped by stressed frieze, below is round arched entrance with cement banded atchitrave and stressed keystone. Double 5 panelled doors with fan light above. 2 paned flat headed sashes flank entrance, projecting sills. Banded rustication to sill band from projecting plinth. The slightly taller flanking window bays project forward of central bay and have independent hipped slate roofs which back on to West front of chapel. Cement ridges and terracotta finials of ball and stemn type at apex of hips. Pebbledashed walls with cement render decoration at corners and eaves, round headed sash window with blocked architraves, stressed keystones and projecting sills. Banded chamfered rustication below at sill height to plinth.
North and south elevations: similar decoration and details to other elevations. Horizontal rendered band below eaves height with string course below to rendered lintel band. Cement pilaster strips at corners have mitred decoration at junction with string course. 3 flat headed sash windows with cement architraves joining lintel band and projecting sills to banded chamfered rustication. East gable plain pebbledash.
Chapel interior: porch - T&G panelled ceiling with iron ventilation grill, plaster walls, dado with vertical T&G panelling below. Quarry tile floor. Two small side rooms with round headed sashes to exterior at either end of vestibule through panelled single doors. 2 Entrances to chapel at either end of east wall of vestibule. Double doors: 2 panels; lower T&G, upper ply with 2 saddle bars - suggests once glazed.
Main chapel interior - wooden coved ceiling, with T&G panels and moulded ribbing. 3 linearly arranged rectangular central panels, within each a decorated square iron ventilation grill. Incised decoration on interior of ribbing around central panels.
Walls - colour washed plaster, moulded dado at window level, vertical T&G panelling below.
West gable contains arched window reveal with sloping T&G sill and round window to exterior. Coloured glass, quatrefoil design against chequered background. Below are 3 flat topped windows with fixed lights of obscured glass to interior of vestibule, central window is wider. All the rectangular windows have straight reveals and architraves emphasised by flushed beading. North and south walls both have 3 rectangular window openings to exterior.
Set fawr - rectangular raised platform, screen open to rear and pulpit, balustraded upper, T&G panels below cornice, turned corner posts with plain acorn finials. Fixed interior benching to either side of central lectern with cupboard below. Similar screen without lectern surrounds organ to front of set fawr.
Table with chamfered legs infront of pulpit. Ornately carved arm chair to right of pulpit. Arched panelled back flanked by fluted pilasters and scrolled arms.
Pulpit - curved moulded banister above balustrade, turned newels with plain acorn finials. Chamfered panelling below with T&G below cornice to plinth. Central lectern. Dado along east wall rises to meet reredos panel behind set fawr - bench inset between plain Tuscan style pilasters which supports a closed segmental pediment of wood, with dentil and other incised decoration.
Brass paraffin lamps, brackets fixed to wooden plaques with chamfered edges to either side of pulpit on east wall. Clock "Bentima - Roberts and Owen, Caernarfon" to right of pulpit.
Chapel school diagonally adjacent, immediately south of chapel. Double fronted with pebbledashed elevations and small paned sash windows. Slate pitched roof with central ridge ventilation tile.
Chapel forecourt surrounded by a rubble wall, double spearheaded wrought iron gates supported on limestone gate posts. Square limestone memorial plaque to Owen Tomos Rolant, born Bryn'Refail 1735, one of the island's earliest Methodists, in exterior of forecourt wall. Right of chapel is a memorial to the dead of WWI, simple cross on stepped base.
GAT; visited 18/05/95
Early C19 chapel house: 2 storey, 2-bay, stone-built house, grit rendered walls, E. wing. Grouted slate roof; gable stack. Sash windows with glazing bars, in reveals. Ground floor windows and entrance have 3-centred arched heads (information from entry in Welsh Office provisional list for Twrcelyn R D, surveyed 03/1966). - Restored: 1922 Source:Jones,67.
- Restored: 1886 Source:Jones,67.
- Built: 1847 Source:Jones,Capeli Mon,67
- Cause: 1852 Source:Hughes, I
- Chapel House Built: 1820A Source:Welsh Office
- Date Of Chapel: 1896 Source:
- Rebuilt(1): 1860 Source:Jones,67
- Rebuilt(2): 1896 Source:Jones,67.
- £ 1070: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 220: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 80: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 1999 (I Hughes)
- Chapel: 2011 (I Hughes)
- Materials
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Italianate
- Plan: Gable Entry
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- Grid Reference: SH48058687
- Address: BRYN-YR-EFAIL
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chapel is still a chapel
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