Salem Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel

Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, designated on 24 June 1991.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Salem Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, with a pin at the register's coordinates — Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1860 map "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1898 · 212 Llandovery (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1898 · 212 Llandovery (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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