Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bethesda Baptist Chapel
Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, designated on 17 May 1988.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 17 May 1988
- Community
- Narberth
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.79859, -4.74437
- Cadw reference
- 6485
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 228 Haverfordwest (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located behind the street line, reached via narrow cul-de-sac mid-way along the High Street.
History
Erected in 1889 at a cost of £2,100; in the style of George Morgan of Carmarthen on the site of an earlier chapel. The Rev Benjamin Thomas (Myfyr Emlyn) being the first minister and whose monument is in the burial ground at rear.
Exterior
Romanesque, gabled, 2 storey and basement, 3 bay snecked masonry front; ashlar dressings. Steeply pitched slate roof with gable parapet to front with finial. Advanced centre bay. Stepped tripartite window to apex, round arches, colonnettes, stopped hoodmoulds; louvres. Stone tablet below reads; BETHESDA BAPTIST CHAPEL, BUILT 1837 REBUILT 1889, PASTOR B THOMAS. 10 light wheel window, cusped foils, dogtooth ornament. 2 light round arched windows to outer bays, colonette, stopped hoodmould. Similar to groundfloor.
Stone steps with iron handrails bridge basement areas to imposing Romanesque doorway. Two order round arch, fleuron and dogtooth mouldings; nookshafts with foliate capitals. Double doors, fillets, iron straps. Cast iron lamp standards flank staircase, barley twist shafts, moulded bases, modern lamps, Victorian sashes to basement windows, sidelights to central door under steps.
Stick brick voussoirs and architraves.
4 window side elevations, rendered to S, stock brick dressings; pointed arches to 1st floor, cambered arches to ground floor, 2 light window. Voussoirs to basement with Victorian sashes.
Rear gable end slate hung. 2 stock brick stacks flank apex. Rendered lean-to projection with lower, advanced hipped wings. 5 light traceried window to top, doorway at base. Victorian sashes to flanks and top storey of wings.
Nearby in the register
- Gates to Bethesda ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- National Westminster BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- Howell Williams Solicitor, County of Pembroke Sherriff's OfficeCommercialunder 1 mi
- PencraigDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.