Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Providence Baptist Chapel, Cwmdu
Talley, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Talley, Carmarthenshire, designated on 22 March 1988.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 22 March 1988
- Community
- Talley
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.95377, -3.98751
- Cadw reference
- 11137
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back behind small burial ground to left of terraced row in centre of Cwmdu village.
History
Small chapel built 1789, rebuilt 1839, refitted and restored in 1883 by David Jenkins of Llandeilo, architect.
Exterior
839 Chapel. Inscribed tablet: "Providence Baptist Chapel. Built 1789; rebuilt 1839; renovated 1883". Rendered and painted long front with lateral slate roof, wide eaves. Two tall round-arched windows with Y-tracery flank central round-arched doorway with Y-traceried fanlight and double panelled doors.Half slate-hung gable end with tall window as above. Whitewashed rubble rear with two windows as above.
Interior
3-sided gallery, panelled and corbelled front upon marbled cast iron columns with foliate capitals. Elaborate classical round-arched plaster frame to rear of timber pulpit. Big seat with timber half-rail; turned wooden balusters. Newels with ball finials. Simple flat ribbed plaster ceiling with central rose. Lobby window with marginal and incised coloured panes
Reason for designation
Group value with the terraced row adjacent.
Nearby in the register
- Post Office (Rhyderonnen)Communicationsunder 1 mi
- Gwanuforfydd HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Inn (Rhyderonnen)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Cottage Row (Rhyderonnen)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.