Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bethel Chapel
Dyffryn Arth, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 23 May 1996
- Locality
- Aberarth
- Community
- Dyffryn Arth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.25190, -4.22984
- Cadw reference
- 17473
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 100m N of Aberarth Bridge, on W side of river, facing up Water Street.
History
Calvinistic Methodist chapel built in 1848. Some alterations recorded in 1900, possibly the porches.
Exterior
Roughcast rubble stone with slate bracket-eaved roof, and two iron ridge ventilators c1900. Broad lateral front of two big 24-pane main windows, 12-pane outer gallery lights over added gabled porches with ledged doors. Centre plaque: `Bethel Aber-arth Addoldy yr Trefnyddion Calfinaidd Adailadwywd yn y flwyddyn 1803 Ail adailadwyd yn y flwyddyn 1848'. Plain raised cement surrounds to openings and raised strips at outer angles.
Roughcast W end with 16-pane window. At NW angle added stable and coach-house, with ground floor window and door, loft window above. The loft has end-wall cart-entry, as built into bank. Yellow-brick heads to openings. E end has 16-pane ground floor window and boarded loft opening.
Interior
No galleries, raked interior with tightly packed painted-grained box pews, in six blocks radiating outwards from 5-sided passage around centre block of pews, which surround the great seat and pulpit. Pulpit with fretwork panelled front. Plain plastered walls and ceiling.
Reason for designation
The chapel is the principal building in Aberarth, an unusually closely-built village, and retains its character as a simple but spacious lateral-fronted chapel, still with original box-pews.
Nearby in the register
- Felin AberarthIndustrialunder 1 mi
- DelfanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box (01545 570241)Communicationsunder 1 mi
- CliftonDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.