- Nprn: 8905
- Cadw Ref: 53/A/29(5)
- Cadw Record No: 10860
- Summary: Calfaria Baptist Chapel was built in 1813 and then enlarged in 1829 and 1832. The chapel was rebuilt in 1851 in the Classical style with a gable-entry plan. The chapel has a Classical, 3-bay front with a pediment and with an advanced central bay. It is built of coursed rubble with freestone dressings, including a moulded cornice, quoins and plinth, and a slate roof with some cresting and boarded eaves. In the pediment is a stone roundel with bricked up quatrefoil over a datestone decorated with swags and inscribed CALFARIA 1851. There is a larger, central, wheel window above the main entrance, which has a deeply moulded, round arched, surround and panelled doors with an intersecting Gothic fanlight. There are small pane sash windows to the outer bays with marginal glazing bars, those on gallery level with cornices and blind panelled aprons. The 'facade' is continued around the corners with 4-bay side elevations with a high plinth serving as the ground floor sill. These elevations have similar sash windows, round-headed to gallery level over square headed below. The hall, added in 1871, is set transversely and projects to either side at the far end, and is built of snecked rubble with a slate roof. Calfaria is now Grade 2 Listed.
RCAHMW, April 2010 - Description: Chapel built 1812/3 & enlarged 1829 & 1832. Rebuilt/modified 1851 to the design of Thomas Joseph. Renovated 1859. Building is listed Grade 2. Status (2004): in chapel use.
Main chapel gable & side walls square rough dressed stonework. Rear vestry gable dressed stonework. Side walls & rear gable random rubble stonework rendered over with cement plaster finish. Roofs of timber framing clad with Welsh slate. Notes from I D Jones 9/12/1997.
Calfaria Chapel was first built in 1813, enlarged in 1829 and 1832 and rebuilt in 1851 at a cost of £400 to the designs of Rev William Lewis. A hall was added in l871. The chapel has a Classical, 3-bay front with a pediment and with an advanced central bay. It is built of coursed rubble with freestone dressings, including a moulded cornice, quoins and plinth, and a slate roof with some cresting and boarded eaves. In the pediment is a stone roundel with bricked up quatrefoil over a datestone decorated with swags and inscribed CALFARIA 1851. There is a larger, central, wheel window above the main entrance, which has a deeply moulded, round arched, surround and panelled doors with an intersecting Gothic fanlight. There are small pane sash windows to the outer bays with marginal glazing bars, those on gallery level with cornices and blind panelled aprons. The 'facade' is continued around the corners with 4-bay side elevations with a high plinth serving as the ground floor sill. These elevations have similar sash windows, round-headed to gallery level over square headed below.
The hall (dated l871) is set transversely and projects to either side at the far end; snecked rubble and slate roof. 3-bay gabled front facing Griffith Street. Tall round arched windows with glazing bars and 'Y' shaped heads, central panelled doors with intersecting tracery fanlight. Horned 12 pane sashes to cement render rear. - Built: 1851 Source:Cadw
- Built: 1852 Source:RCCEORBWM
- Built*: 1813 Source:Datestone
- Date Of Chapel: 1851 Source:
- Monuments In Burial Grnd.: 1880A Source:Cadw
- Rebuilt(1): 1851 Source:
- Rebuilt(2): 1871 Source:RCCEORBWM
- Hall Added: 1871 Source:Cadw (plaque)
- Vestry Built: 1871 Source:Datestone
- Rebuilt: 1852 Source:BOW
- Organ: 1906 Source:BOW
- Enlarged: 1829 Source:
- Enlarged: 1832 Source:
- Architect: 1851 W. Lewis,
- Architect: 1852 Thomas Joseph, Hirwaun
- £ 4000: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 815: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 9/12/1997 (Site visit - I D Jones)
- Chapel: 2011 (Baptist Union Website)
- Welsh: 9/12/1997 (Site visit - I D Jones)
- Welsh: 10/01/1994 (MGCS)
- Materials
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Storey: Two storey
- Style: Classical
- Gallery: On three sides
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Pulpit Position: Rear wall
- Window Glazing: Margin
- Windows: Flat-headed
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Map
- Grid Reference: SO00190245
- Address: MONK STREET, ABERDARABERDAR
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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