Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Sion
Scleddau, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 10 February 1994
- Locality
- Scleddau
- Community
- Scleddau
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.96680, -4.99488
- Cadw reference
- 15194
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 150m SW of the crossroads at the centre of Scleddau.
History
Small Baptist chapel dating from 1859.
Exterior
Rendered walls, the front facade colour-washed and lined horizontally. Half-hipped slate roof. NW front has two 9 pane gallery sash windows and small plaque inscribed 'Capel Sion 1859'. Single doorway has white painted recessed arch with keystone and infilled fanlight. SW and NE sides each have two long arched sash windows with intersecting tracery. Two arched windows at rear with C20 glazing.
Interior
Rendered wall lined as ashlar. Pitch pine pews. Three sided gallery on square marbled wooden posts, three each side. Gallery front panelled and grained. Ribbed and boarded roof with sloping sides. Boarded vestibule with one window with coloured glass boarders. Chapel interior has oil lamps on wrought iron standards, 4 on ground floor and 3 in gallery. Pulpit with steps up each side, pierced fretwork front and 2 oil lamps on adjustable brass standards.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a small rural chapel with original fittings.
Nearby in the register
- Llanstinian Bridge (partly in Trecwn)Transportunder 1 mi
- Church of St JustinianReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Castell Pant-y-PhillipEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Ciliauwen LodgeDomestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.