Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bethlehem Chapel with house
Llanfair Caereinion, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Dolgead, Llanfair Caereinion, Powys, designated on 1 April 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 1 April 1996
- Locality
- Dolgead
- Community
- Llanfair Caereinion
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.66371, -3.34956
- Cadw reference
- 17406
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located alongside the main road to Meifod, 550m from Neuadd Bridge junction with the A458. The main entrance is approached directly from the road by a cobbled path, the forecourt is enclosed by cast iron railings and gat
History
Built for the Calvinistic Methodists in 1834 at a cost of £200 to seat 135 and shown as Penybrin Chapel and House on the Tithe Map. The Welsh Presbyterian Church of Llanfair Caereinion had two daughter chapels, the Bethlehem Chapel at Dolgead and Capel Soar near Melin-y-grug. The original square building had a single door in the SW side approached by a path. This was altered in 1884 (date on porch gable), when the adjoining house was rebuilt, and two doors made in the front facing the road and covered by a long lean-to porch. There was also a stable for the minister's horse.
Exterior
Single Chapel room with N porch and 2 storey, 2 bay house added at W end. Rock-faced local dark stone with a slate roof. The lean-to porch has a central gable over a boarded door, with side lancets. The main body of the chapel has two windows on each of 3 sides with margin glazed timber 'Y'-tracery, those to the front having flashed yellow glass and applied frosting. The caretaker's house is of one bay, with side door, and 2 rooms on each of 2 floors. Modern windows in original openings.
Interior
Seats c100 persons. Walls plastered up to a Gothic moulded frieze at the base of a coved ceiling, which has a central roundel. Cantilevered pulpit raised against an arched feature on the SE wall with moulded hood, and panelled sedd fawr below.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a small rural chapel with added minister's house.
Nearby in the register
- House including Wall and Railings to Bethlehem ChapelDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mile Post at Neuadd BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Bryn-glas Hall Also known as Brynglas DevereuxDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cottages at Melin-y-Ddol adjoining Ty Gwyn to the SouthDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.