Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Newydd
Manordeifi, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1994
- Locality
- Newchapel/Capel Newydd
- Community
- Manordeifi
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.02538, -4.58369
- Cadw reference
- 15134
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in centre of Newchapel, on N side of B 4332.
History
1848 Calvinistic Methodist chapel, replacing one of 1763. This was one of the earliest Methodist congregations in Pembrokeshire founded by Howel Davies.
Exterior
1848 chapel in painted roughcast with slate roof and bracketted eaves. Lateral facade with two large centre arched windows and two outer ledged doors. C20 hardwood glazing with blue glass. Cut stone voussoirs to arches and cambered foor heads, also to surround of centre diamond plaque inscribed 'Capel Newydd gan y Trefnyddion Calfynaidd, Adailadwyd 1763, Ailadailadwyd 1848'. Rubble stone side and rear walls, originally two-storey, two-window each, but one bay each side obscured by later additions. Attached chapel house to left is not included in listing. C20 red-brick vestry attached to right.
Interior
Unaltered interior of 1848 with plain ceiling, three-sided gallery on 3x3 wooden columns, the bases raised above the pews. Gallery front has grained bracket cornice and plain panelling. Across entrance front is vestibule with two 15-pane windows and 4-panel doors with overlights and coloured glass margins under gallery ends. Grained bracket cornice above windows and turned-baluster rail to walkway connecting gallery ends. Box pews with painted panelling and grained ends, the two back rows stepped up. Raked pews in galleries. Plain panelled great seat and pulpit with curving steps each side, ramped rails and shallow curved pancelled pulpit front with low rails each side of taller book-rest.
Reason for designation
Included, in spite of window alterations, because of unaltered interior of 1848.
Nearby in the register
- Cilwendeg LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Attached Gatepier and Railings to No 1, Cilwendeg LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Attached Gatepier and Railings to No 2, Cilwendeg LodgeReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- No 2, Cilwendeg LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.