- Nprn: 8841
- Cadw Ref: AI
- Cadw Record No: 19947
- Summary: The Calvinistic Marthodist cause in Rhoscolyn first met in Ty'n Rhos and then in an early nineteenth century small cottage/ farmhouse, later to be known as Ty Capel. The present chapel was built in 1906 and Ty Capel converted into a stable and vestry with a schoolrooms over. The chapel is built in the Classical style of the gable-entry type and is now Grade 2 listed for its bold design and ambitious scale for a small rural community.
RCAHMW, March 2010 - Description: Cause first met in Ty'n Rhos, then in an early-C19 farmhouse, later to be Ty Capel. Present chapel built 1906 & Ty Capel converted to stable & vestry. Built in the Classical style, gable entry type. Building is listed Grade 2. Status (2000): in chapel use.
CADW Reference
Exterior - Large single-storey, gable-entry Methodist Chapel with Renaissance style detail to front elevation. Built of rubble masonry, rendered and pebble-dashed, with rendered dressings; hipped slate roof with red clay ridge tiles. Main entrance elevation is strongly symmetrical with a central panelled door under a gabled porch flanked by tall round-headed sliding sash windows with margin panes; moulded surrounds and stressed keystones. Above the doorway are 3 stepped, round-headed lights with corbelled sill and stressed, moulded, shaped hoodmould carried down to corbels. The shaped hoodmould is mirrored in the shaped centrepiece of the parapet above, and linked to it by moulded strips, framing stressed lettering reading: 1906 / RHOSCOLYN; this raised panel is surmounted by a fluted urn finial on a moulded plinth. The parapet is stepped down to either side, terminating in raised blocks with floriate panels, stepped caps and urn finials, over the engaged angle pilasters of the chapel: these are reeded in their upper sections only, and have recessed floriate panels at their heads. 4 bay return elevations, each bay with segmental-headed windows and the rear elevation has 2 round-headed windows; all with slightly recessed sash windows with margin panes. The gabled porch has a slate roof with bargeboards supported on timber piers with chamfered angles. In front of the chapel is a small yard enclosed by a low rendered wall with wrought iron railings and gates; pedestrian gates in front of the chapel entrance have chinoiserie style decorative piers with moulded caps surmounted by ball finials, gates have arched head rails and horizontal upper, lock and base rails with upright railings of varying heights topped by fleur de lys finials. Flanking low rendered wall with railings above terminates with square piers with stepped caps; gateway to left with similar pier at left side; similarly detailed gates with circular design between the 2 lock rails.
Interior - Main entrance leads into a rectangular lobby with opposing side entrances with panelled doors; these lead into the chapel with set fawr at the opposite end. Fittings are of pitch pine with 3 ranks of raking pews. Set fawr is raised by 2 steps; rectangular with advanced central bay flanked by entrances. Lower part of recessed panelling with turned balusters above supporting a moulded rail; turned newel posts at angles. Pulpit is raised by 3 steps; rectangular, with slightly advanced central bay, formed by recessed panelling with central part raised, under a moulded cornice; side entrances with turned balusters and newel posts. Behind the pulpit are 3 tall recesses with open-pedimented, moulded, wooden surround; the central recess with a shallow pointed head, lower flanking recesses with square-heads. The ceiling is of diagonally set tongued and grooved panels, recessed and with moulded wooden dividers and circular, pierced, decorative ventilation grilles. Walls are plastered, painted, with tongued and grooved panelling under a dado rail to the lower part. - Built: 1800 Source:Religious Census
- Date Of Chapel: 1906 Source:Cadw (plaque)
- Met In Ty Capel: 1800-1899 Source:Cadw
- Ty Capel Blt As Farmhouse: 1820A Source:Cadw
- Ty Capel To Stable/vestry: c.1906 Source:Cadw
- Built: 1805 Source:Capeli Mon, 108
- Rebuilt: 1906 Source:
- £ 1500: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 175: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 220: 1999 Sittings (Hughes, I)
- 50: 1851 (Religious Census)
- 246: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 150: 1851 (Religious Census)
- Chapel: 2000 (RCAHMW)
- Chapel: 2011 (Denominational Yearbook)
- Materials
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Classical
- Plan: Gable Entry
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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