- Nprn: 9318
- Cadw Ref: (WO)5/55
- Cadw Record No: 13753
- Summary: Roath Park Presbyterian Chapel was built in 1897 to the design of architects Habershon & Fawckner of Newport. The chapel is stone built in an elaborate Gothic style with a gable-entry plan and integral tower. The doorway, with traceried arch and decorated panels, is a copy of the thirteenth century west door of Tintern Abbey and the great window above is a copy of one of the transept windows in Melrose Abbey, Scotland. Roath Park is now Grade 2 Listed.
RCAHMW, June 2010 - Description: Chapel built 1897-1900 in Gothic style to the design of Habershon & Fawckner of Newport , with 150 ft spire (Cost £16,000). Building is listed Grade 2. Status (1996): in chapel use.
RCS2/1/1158
Name of chapel: St Andrews KMU ref [22]
Address: Wellfield Road, Roath Park, Cardiff NRPN ref:9318 Denomination: URC (was English Presbyterian.)
OS ST1927/7807
Date of visit: 05/12/95
GENERAL CONDITION OF BUILDING AS AT SURVEY:
CHERISHED BUT STRUGGLING
MAIN NOTEWORTHY FEATURE of MAIN BUILDING / COMPLEX:
The high point of the Gothic Revival in Cardiff, built 1900*
(*from Mr Roberts).
Blue pennant sandstone with unbelievably elaborate limestone ashlar detailing, built alongside earlier (1897-8) chapel now used as school room / Hall.
Range of connecting outbuildings.
Cadw listing of 1972:
'1897; designed by Habershon and Fawckner. Decorated Gothic bulding in dark facetedsstone with ashlar dressings. Slated roof. Northwest end gabled with finely traceried window; paired trefoil-headed doorways within common two-centred arch below. At north-east angle,fine tower with spirel; doorway at base. Nave window of 3-lights. Within, 4-bay unaisled nave with crossing and with gallery at north-west end. Timber roof with wind-braces, hammer beams and crown posts. Listed chiefly on account of north-west end, including land-mark value of tower and spire.'
'The Buildings of Cardiff':
'The entrance facade is particularly fine, but this is hardly surprising for the doorway, with its traceried arch and decorated panels, is a copy of the thirteenth century west door of Tintern Abbey and the great window above is a copy of one of the transept windows in Melrose Abbey, Scotland. At the side there is a good tower with a tall spire (150 feet high) complete with spirelets.'
(J.B.Hilling)
Very decorative interior roof construction: double hammer beams with decorative spandrels between curved braces / arched braces and wall/hammer posts. Purlins break angle to provide a (boarded) ceiling approaching a barrel vault: with three angled splays to each side. Pointed arch wind bracing.
The earlier building is much simpler, with a gabled facade, a central half-octagonal single storey (later?) flat roofed projecting bay flanked each side by a plate traceried doorway. Above and behind the bay a range of 3 lancet windows in 2 stages, pointed arch cusped heads and flanking buttresses / piers. - Built: 1900 Source:RCCEORBWM
- Built: 1897 Source:Welsh Office
- Built: 1900 Source:KMUA
- Date Of Chapel: 1900 Source:
- £ 13000: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 610: 1905 Accomodation (RCCEORBWM)
- 850: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 28/02/1996 (KMUA)
- Chapel: 2011 (Denomination Website)
- English: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- Materials
- Stone
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Gothic
- Gallery: End galleries
- Plan: Gable Entry
- Window Glazing: Tracery
- Windows: Gothic
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Images from Coflein
Map
- Grid Reference: ST19277807
- Address: MARLBOROUGH ROAD/ WELLFIELD ROAD, ROATH, CARDIFF
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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