Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bethabara Baptist Chapel
Crickhowell, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 18 December 1985
- Community
- Crickhowell
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85652, -3.14064
- Cadw reference
- 7179
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 in a burial ground at the bottom of the street close to Crickhowell Bridge.
History
Dated 1840.
Exterior
Plain classical 2-storey chapel, coursed bull-nosed rubble with slate roof and wide boarded eaves. 3-window front, open pedimented gable with inscribed tablet and 2-window side elevations. 16-pane sash glazing throughout, with Gothick intersecting glazing bars to semi-circular heads of 1st floor windows. Classical flat-roofed open porch with plain entablature on timber columns and double 3-panel doors.
Disused and in deteriorating condition (particularly to interior) at time of inspection, October 1985.
Rubble gate piers and iron railings to front.
Later vestry attached to NE end and not of special interest.
Interior
Retains interior with panel fronted gallery on cast iron columns with bell capitals. Plaster ceiling with ornate centrepiece. Big seat on square platform under tall blind semi-circular recess to rear wall. Pews canted towards platform.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 19 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 18 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 16 Bridge StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridgend InnCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.