Gilead Old Chapel

Hundleton, Pembrokeshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Hundleton, Pembrokeshire, designated on 29 September 1993.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Gilead Old Chapel, Hundleton, Pembrokeshire, with a pin at the register's coordinates — Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1898 · 245 Pembroke (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0

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