Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bethel Baptist Chapel and attached vestry.
Llangyndeyrn, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 2 September 1999
- Locality
- Llangyndeyrn
- Town
- Kidwelly
- Community
- Llangyndeyrn
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.80583, -4.23315
- Cadw reference
- 22270
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 some 250m down lane running NE from B4306 in Llangyndeyrn village, on the NW side of lane.
History
Baptist chapel first built 1797, rebuilt 1840-1, remodelled 1904, the interior detail typical of the work of J H Morgan of Carmarthen.
Exterior
Chapel, unpainted stucco with slate hipped roof, in grey slates, with flat eaves. Two-storey, 3-window front of small arched windows with Florentine timber tracery (2-light and roundel) of 1904 and bead-moulded surrounds. Centre arched doorway with panelled double door and leaded crescent overlight, also 1904. Leaded glazing. Raised plinth, channelled angle piers. Date plaque over door, 'Bethel Baptist Chapel Built 1797 Rebuilt 1840 Renovated 1904'. Rendered end walls. W wall plaque to Rev William Thomas d1813 'the first Unitarian Minister of this congregation'. Inscribed beneath: 'Believing one true living God/ And Christ his Son his paths to tred/ General Baptist I preferred/ In peace I deid I have not err'd'. Rubble stone rear with 2 arched windows, stone voussoirs and square impost blocks. Similar Florentine tracery.
Rear NE whitewashed rubble stone vestry range with N end stack. Half-gable to S with steps up to door. E side has basement door to right and C20 window first floor centre. Blank rear wall
Interior
Interior of 1904 with the exception of the 5 iron columns with leaf capitals that support the 3-sided gallery, which are C19. Panelled ceiling. Gallery with gently curved main front, timber, with plain cornice, small horizontal panels under open panels with short turned balusters. Plain pulpit with steps up each side, ball finials, shaped balusters and shallow-curved front, panelled below small square balusters. Two brass oil lamps. Pews in 3 blocks, curved, and some inward facing pews each side of pulpit. Raked curved gallery pews. Lobby has 3-light leaded window with coloured glass and double doors each side. Tiled floor and 4-panel doors on gallery stairs.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved hipped-roof chapel of c1840, remodelled in 1904 with attractive interior.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St CyndeyrnReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cross base and sundial in Llangyndeyrn churchyardNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- BragdyNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Capel Salem including forecourt railingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.