Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hebron Congregational Chapel
Erwood, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 3 August 2001
- Locality
- Crickadarn
- Town
- Builth Wells
- Community
- Erwood
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.07076, -3.32876
- Cadw reference
- 25657
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in graveyard on S side of village square at Crickadarn.
History
Congregational chapel of 1854, altered in 1901. The chapel was founded from Beili-heulog in 1812, and the rebuilding cost £300.
Exterior
Chapel, coursed squared rubble stone to facade with slate roof. Gable front with overhanging verges, 2 large arched windows with marginal glazing bars and stone sills. Arched plaque in gable. 1901 black brick porch with double 3-panel doors and fanlight with marginal glazing bars. Two-window sides with long cambered-headed windows, with marginal glazing-bars, the W wall roughcast, the right wall painted rubble stone. Added lean-tos to rear.
Interior
Plain interior without gallery. Pine pews in 3 blocks. Pulpit with stairs up both sides and acorn finials and front with fretwork decoration and bookrest.
Reason for designation
Included as a simple mid C19 chapel of group value in the attractive village square at Crickadarn.
Nearby in the register
- South CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Corner HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box at Crickadarn (01982 560254)Communicationsunder 1 mi
- The Fir Tree including stone front wall to gardenDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.