Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Carmel Independent Chapel
Nantmel, Powys, Wales
A Grade II* listed building in Carmel, Nantmel, Powys, designated on 4 November 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 4 November 1997
- Locality
- Carmel
- Community
- Nantmel
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.28915, -3.38819
- Cadw reference
- 19016
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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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 179 Rhyader (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back on the N side of a minor road N of the A44, approximately 2km ENE of Nantmel.
History
Early C19 chapel, said to date from 1829.
Exterior
Early C19 chapel. Rubble (painted), slate roof, with finial to L. Two storey, 4 window front. Pair of central 12-pane windows whose upper panes are treated as Gothic arches. Beyond these at upper level, square 4-pane windows with cusped gazing to upper panes. Below these, camber-headed doorways with boarded doors.
Interior
Unspoilt interior retaining early C19 character. Pulpit and set fawr enclosure placed centrally against front wall; steps with turned balusters. Gallery on 3 sides on wooden posts has panelled wooden frontal and clock; steps in rear L corner. Wooden benches.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II* as an especially fine and well-preserved early C19 rural chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Cow house at Hirfron FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Multi-purpose farm range at Hirfron FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Detached farm range at Hirfron FarmNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- HirfronNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.