Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Sardis
Trallong, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 17 February 1998
- Locality
- Cwmcamlais
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Trallong
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.93050, -3.52399
- Cadw reference
- 19378
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on E side of the Cwm Camlais lane about 3 km S of junction with A40 opposite Abercamlais drive.
History
Congregational chapel built in 1840, a branch of Brychgoed chapel, Defynnog. Refused land by the Penpont estate, the members found land owned by sons of a Mr Davies of Sardis, Carmarthenshire, after which place the new chapel was named. Altered or rebuilt in 1860; the Georgian Gothic glazing to the sash windows has been altered since listing in 1998.
Exterior
Chapel, painted rubble stone with slate roof. Entrance in long wall facing road, with cambered-headed doorway to left, with panelled door. Two slightly pointed windows with small-paned glazing and stone voussoirs and stone sills. Left gable end has 12-pane hornless sash window. Rear, at eaves level, has two square 4-pane windows, and one nine-pane hornless sash window below. Windowless rendered right gable.
Interior
Almost square plan with boarded ceiling and gallery on 3-sides, with rectangular panels to front, on plain iron classical columns. Panelled pulpit of c. 1860 on entry wall with turned balusters and Jacobethan newels with finials. Lobby with wooden screen at NW corner. Wooden pews.
Reason for designation
Included, notwithstanding the modern glazing, for its special interest as a simple C19 rural chapel with some definite character.
Nearby in the register
- Cwm Camlais CastleMotteunder 1 mi
- Roman Road on Mynydd Illtyd, south-western sectionRoadunder 1 mi
- MaescarDomesticunder 1 mi
- Roman Road on Mynydd Illtyd, North-Eastern sectionRoad1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.