- Nprn: 9292
- Cadw Record No: 21573
- Summary: Tredgarville Baptist Chapel was built in 1862 in the Gothic style of the gable-entry type, to the design of architect William Gilbert Habershon of London. The chapel was modified in 1879 and 1908. Treagarville is now Grade 2 Listed and has some notable stained glass windows.
RCAHMW, June 2010 - Description: Chapel built 1861/2 in Gothic style to the design of W G Habershon of London. Further internal modifications 1880s-1990s. Building is listed Grade 2. Status (1998): in chapel use.
Name of chapel: Tredegarville Baptist Church KMU ref: [78]
Address: The Parade /East Grove, Tredegarville, Cardiff NRPN ref:14212 Denomination: Baptist
OS ST1907/7689 Date of visit: 21/02/96
GENERAL CONDITION OF BUILDING AS AT SURVEY:
CHERISHED, MAY BE STRUGGLING, PREVIOUS MINOR ADAPTATIONS
EXPOSED BAPTISTERY, ORGAN etc ABOUT TO BE ALTERED FOR CONTINUING USE
MAIN NOTEWORTHY FEATURE of MAIN BUILDING / COMPLEX:
The axial, attached building accessed at ground level from East Grove, used as the chapel/ meeting hall above the 'Sisterhood Room' may have been the original church.
The current church, dominant above a half-basement community room, is built in a sturdy, cruciform shape; decorative masonry walls in a deliberately random, axially set mix of stone types(particularly lime / silt stones) and colours with limestone ashlar detailing. Flights of steps lead up to the central doors at the main level. Heavy plate tracery to the access façade, miniatured colonettes to small windows flanking the main doors. The major theme of window styles is circular: mostly slim, ashlar mouldings to tall, pointed arched head lights with circles in the head of the containing pointed arched head; either cusped to form quatrefoils or completely circular. Similar tracery to gable and both transepts. Plate tracery containing circles in the link between the subsidiary building and the main church.
The church now has internal glazed screens cutting off the transepts to allow new stairs to the three sided gallery and down to the basement.
The baptistery is a large, exposed stone tank. Major internal alterations are proposed imminently: for removing the baptistery, relocating the high-level organ and possibly replacing pews with seats.
Brian Llewellyn James:
'Tredegarville English Baptist was founded from Bethany in 1861 in what must then have been one of the most fashionable residential parts of Cardiff. Tredegarville chapel later became a powerhouse for the Baptist mission into outer Cardiff'.
John Hilling:
'..a more showy' (than St Peter's, St Peter's Street, also built in 1861) 'Decorated Gothic building with stonework picked out in grey and white'.
John Newman 'The Buildings of Wales':
'1861-3 by W G Habershon of London. An earlu example of Welsh Non-conformist Gothic, largely paid for by the coal entrepreneur Cory family. The Latin cross plan is said to have been demanded by Lord Tredegar, the ground landlord. Plate tracery and bar tracery, some of it cuspless. The walls faced with random blocks of Carboniferous limestone, pepper-and-salt rather than truly multi-coloured. The geological character of the stone suggests that it came is, as ballast in Cory coal ships, from Co Galway, Ireland, rather than, as tradition has it, from Italy. Inside, the most arresting feature is the arcaded stone baptistery, in front of the broad timber pulpit. Galleries on three sides on thin iron shafts. Steep boarded roof, supported on arch-braces and tie-beams. STAINED GLASS: Unusually much. Most interesting are the transept windows, c 1880. Biblical plants, vine, lily, pomegranate, palm,with appropriate texts amd heads of prophets and Evangelists. - Four large mid C20 New Testament scenes. Suffer Little Children, 1938 by Powell's, Baptism of Christ, c 1962, signed by Bristow Wadley & Co of Cardiff, Empty Tomb and Good Samaritan. HALL behind in a similar style.' - Organ To Baptist. Alcove: 1997 Source:Cadw
- Built: 1862 Source:RCCEORBWM
- Built: 1861-1862 Source:Cadw
- Chapel Openend: 22/05/1862 Source:Cadw
- Glass Transept Screen: 1992 Source:Cadw
- Jr Thomas Window: c.1962 Source:Cadw
- H & Ej Williams Window: 1938 Source:Cadw
- Stained Glass Windows: 1880-1969 Source:Cadw
- Foundation Stone: 31/07/1861 Source:Cadw
- Land Donated: c.1861 Source:Cadw
- Offshoot Of Bethany: c.1861 Source:Cadw
- Basement Schoolroom Open: 03/12/1861 Source:Cadw
- Date Of Chapel: 1862 Source:
- Alterations: 1908 Source:Cardiff
- Additions: 1879 Source:Cardiff
- Architect: 1861-1862 William Gilbee Habershon, Newport
- Donor: c.1861 Tredegar,
- Architect: 1908 C.J. Ward,
- £ 7000: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- £ 3600: 1999 (Cadw)
- 1000: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 700: 1905 Accomodation (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 2011 (Church Website)
- English: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- Materials
- Stone
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Gothic
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Window Glazing: Florentine Tracery
- Windows: Gothic
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Map
- Grid Reference: ST19077688
- Address: THE PARADE, TREDEGARVILLE
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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