Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hodley United Reformed Church
Kerry, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 12 September 1996
- Locality
- Hodley
- Town
- Newtown
- Community
- Kerry
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.51594, -3.22583
- Cadw reference
- 17300
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 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the E side of the road from Kerry to Abermiwl, within the small hamlet of Hodley.
History
The building was erected in 1840 (datestone in gable), as the Bethany Independent Chapel.
Exterior
Whitewashed brick with a slated roof. Single cell, with a brick and slate porch on the main front, added C20. Brick dentilled eaves. Two round-headed windows each side, with fixed glazing and central vent, the glazing bars rising to intersect in the semi-circular heads. Original glazing replaced by 16-pane sashes on the S elevation, matching the original and retaining the intersecting heads. Semi-circular black date-stone in front gable, reading BETHANY/1840.
Interior
Very simple. Slightly raked boarded floor, plastered walls and ceiling, latter of 3 bays, coved to the side walls. Grained panelled dado. Pulpit with canted and balustered front, and with a panelled reredos. Pine pews seating approximately 90, with wall benching at the rear.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a rural chapel of the mid C19, set in a conspicuous position.
Nearby in the register
- The Old CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Camp Pen-y-Gelli (revealed by aerial photography)Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Upper Maenllwyd farmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Site 450m NW of Glan Mule (revealed by aerial photography)Ring Ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.