Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gilead Old Chapel
Hundleton, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 29 September 1993
- Community
- Hundleton
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.65695, -4.93605
- Cadw reference
- 6572
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 NW side of main road. Opposite the present Gilead Chapel.
Exterior
1845 former Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, now hall. Roughcast with slate roof. Single-storey lateral facade with two big arched windows, small-paned with intersecting tracery in heads; round arched door to right with blank tympanum and framed ledged door. Door to left within added rubble stone lean-to. Centre plaque: 'Gilead 1845'. Coped end gables, slate hanging in SW gable.
Rubble stone front wall with rendered piers.
Reason for designation
Included as good example of smaller rural chapel of earlier C19. Replaced by present chapel of 1876 across the road.
Nearby in the register
- Rose LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- North LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Brick HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bowett Wood CampEnclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.