Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Salem Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel
Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 24 June 1991
- Community
- Llandeilo
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.88471, -3.99315
- Cadw reference
- 11073
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1860 "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the street line opposite the junction with Bank Buildings.
Exterior
l874. Eclectic 2 storey, 3 bay snecked masonry front; ashlar dressings, rusticated quoins. Steeply pitched slate roof.
Advanced centre bay, open pediment treatment. Iron finial. Hoodmould over pierced disc to apex. Stepped tripartite window to gallery. Round arches, hoodmould, colonettes, foliate capitals. Plate tracery over tall round arched windows, lead cames. Sill band. Shallow gabled porch with iron cross finial inset tablet with lettering WELSH CALVINISTIC METHODIST 1874. Foliate capitals to colonettes on pedestals. Modern plank doors. Steps, iron handrails. Narrow round arched lancets flanking, hoodmoulds, brackets to sill. Two tier 2 light round arched windows set within round arched recess with plate tracery to top to flanking bays, impost band. Hipped fishscale slate roof, pierced blocking course on corbelled eaves.
5 window rendered side elevations. Tall round arched windows to lst floor, plain to ground floor. Victorian sashes with sidebar glazing. Schoolroom and manse adjoin at right angles to rear. Modern fenestration.
Crenellated forecourt wall with railings to embrasures. Gatepiers to centre with ornate ironwork ball topped finials. Contemporary gates.
Interior
Good rectangular galleried interior. Raked gallery, curged panelled front on cast iron columns, composite capitals. Classical surround to organ recess panelled great seat and pulpit.
Nearby in the register
- 14 Bank BuildingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bank BuildingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Green HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Prospect HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.