Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Earlswood Valley Methodist Chapel
Shirenewton, Monmouthshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 30 January 2001
- Locality
- Earlswood
- Town
- Chepstow
- Community
- Shirenewton
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64901, -2.79764
- Cadw reference
- 24568
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
About 4km west of Shirenewton on the northern fringe of Bica Common.
History
There is said to be an inscription inside the chapel dating its construction to 1791, but see References below.
Exterior
The chapel is roughcast over stone rubble with painted stone dressings and a Welsh slate roof. It is a small rectangular two storey building with a tiny single storey wing. The entrance is in the gable end and has a plank door in an arched surround with keyed head and impost blocks. Arched window in plain surround to the gallery above; this has a 6 over 6 sash with intersecting head. Plain bargeboarded gable. There is a memorial inscription on red sandstone fixed to the left of the door, this is dated 1832. The side elevation has two arched openings with modern timber windows. The end elevation has two original arched sashes with 6 over 4 panes. The fourth elevation has a small projecting wing with a door and a 3 + 3 casement at the front and a modern window in the rear.
Interior
The interior is very plain with a panelled gallery front, pine benches and high seat. The chapel is lit by oil lamps. An inscription (not seen during resurvey) is said to record :-
This Chapel was built / in the year 1791 / I have witnessed these words in print / May its light shine forever. O. Collier
Reason for designation
Included as a good and little altered rural Methodist chapel dating probably from 1799.
Nearby in the register
- Cil-voynog Farmhouse and attached barnDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at PenheinAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
- PenheinDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.