- Nprn: 9368
- Cadw Ref: (WO)5/58
- Cadw Record No: 13645
- Summary: Albany Road Methodist Chapel was built in 1898 to the design of architects Jones, Richards and Budgen of Cardiff. The chapel is stone built in the Gothic style with a long-wall entry plan, an integral tower and perpendicular leaded windows. In 1996 the building was in use as a storeroom for a salesroom and by 2003 was closed and up for sale. Albany Road is now Grade 2 Listed.
RCAHMW, June 2010 - Description: Chapel founded 1893 & built 1898 to the design of Jones, Richards & Budgen (cost £7000). Building is listed Grade 2. Status (1975): in chapel use. 1995: Saleroom. [Additional:] Present status [2002/3]: apparently closed. Adjacent, probably later, hall or school-room (Bangor Street) also closed and for sale. (2003.04.10/RCAHMW/RFS)
Name of chapel: now a Trading Emporium KMU ref: [74]
Address: Albany Road, Roath, Cardiff NRPN ref:9368
Denomination: n/a OS ST1912/7790
Date of visit: 22/02/96
Contact: n/a
GENERAL CONDITION OF BUILDING AS AT SURVEY:
BUILDING ADAPTED FOR DIFFERENT USE
Note: the building is used but not regarded, with carpet rolls stacked against the leaded light windows, rugs draped over the font and the galleries stacked with storage.
MAIN NOTEWORTHY FEATURE of MAIN BUILDING / COMPLEX:
Originally Roath Park Methodist church, built 1897-8. (Brian Llewellyn James).
Massive Gothic revival high church style which, together with additional rooms, form a huge complex on the corner of Wellfield Road / Albany Road. No access obtained to the rear of the building or to the segmentally arched head windowed, apparently later, hall building on Bangor Street which may or may not have been part of the original complex.
This is a multi-facetted building of Blue pennant sandstone with considerable ashlar detail and decoration inside and out in monumental style. Two storey projecting wing to the south-west of the tower, being contemporaneous and in the same style, adds to the overall effect. The main entrance passes under the tower. Very large open interior space created by interior multi-shafted piers with lean-to roofed side aisles to body and transepts. The interior retains such features as the galleries and the carved stone pulpit, with parts of the organ casing and pipes still in position.
.. 'another ecclesiastical building which, from the outside at least, is indistinguishable from an episcopalian church. Built in 1898, to designs by Jones, Richards and Budgen, it is a large cruciform edifice in Perpendicualar style with a tall tower terminated by crocketed pinnacles at the corners. The hall, together with secondary rooms, are grouped together at the rear and illustrate the complete break from Welsh chapel tradition in this building.' (John Hilling).
Cadw listing notes 1972:
'1898. Church in Gothic style designed by Jones, Richards and Bugden. (sic) Walls faced with dark brown/grey stone with ashlar dressings. Church of cruciform plan on South-west - North-east axis with tower against south 'transeptal' wing; hall at right angles to church to west of tower. Church with segmental headed windows to side elevations; North-east window of 6-lights flanked by buttresses with crocketed pinnacles. Hall with eastern elevation of 3 bays and south-east end of 1 bay. Tower in angle between the two; square tower with buttresses and crocketed pinnacles; it has a landmark value and is graded II for this reason.'
Notes taken from 'The Archive Photographs' series: 'ROATH, SPLOTT AND ADAMSOWN'
compiled by Jeff Childs:
with photograph ' Roath Park Wesleyan Methodist church, c 1910. It was designed by JP Jones, Richards and Budgen and opened on 23 November 1898. It was extended and altered in 1911. The church closed in 1990 and underwent conversion to an indoor market the following year. The building to the right was presumably the iron church erected in 1893.'
(NB: the 'iron church', with small bell tower, is the same campanile shape, orientation and location to the superseding 'Hall' noted in the survey notes.)
Notes taken from 'The Buildings of Wales' series: (Pevsner) 'GLAMORGAN'
compiled by John Newman:
..... 'An ambitious essay in te Anglican manner. Cruciform plan, with a proch tower towards Bangor Street looking as if it has strayed from East Anglia.The Dec tracery is cuspless, however. Newbridge Pennant sandstone with Bath stone dressings. The three-bay, aisled and clerestoried nave has clustered piers with keeled shafts, and arches with double-wave mouldings, these too East Anglian in feeling. But at the crossing no arches, just vertical piers carves at the top with groups of angels. Galleries in the transepts, but off-centre pulpit, discreetly sited organ, space for a choir and a five-light window, with stained glass in it, above the site of the altar. Boarded roofs of four-centred profile.' - Built: 1898 Source:Welsh Office
- Built: 1898 Source:RCCEORBWM
- Date Of Chapel: 1898 Source:
- Architect: 1898 J.P. Jones, Cardiff
- £ 9000: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- 940: 1905 Sittings (RCCEORBWM)
- 700: 1905 Accomodation (RCCEORBWM)
- Chapel: 19/05/1975 (Welsh Office)
- Converted: 12/2010 ()
- English: 1905 (RCCEORBWM)
- Materials
- Stone
- Monument Type: CHAPEL
- Form: Building
- Style: Gothic
- Gallery: End galleries
- Plan: Long-wall entry
- Window Glazing: Leaded
- Windows: Perpendicular
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Map
- Grid Reference: ST19127790
- Address: ALBANY ROAD, ROATH
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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