Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bethel Baptist Chapel
Honddu Isaf, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pwllgloyw, Brecon, Honddu Isaf, Powys, designated on 16 February 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 16 February 2005
- Locality
- Pwllgloyw
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Honddu Isaf
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.99908, -3.41402
- Cadw reference
- 83671
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 213 Brecon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back on the W side of the B4520 on the bank of the Nant y Groes some 700m N of Pwllgloyw.
History
Baptist Chapel dated 1855.
Exterior
Chapel, painted rubble stone and slate roof gabled front . Later porch. Front has bargeboards, arched windows with stone voussoirs and stone sills, two long windows each side and a short one in centre over porch. Windows have small panes and radiating glazing bars to heads. Plaque over centre window. Porch has bargeboards and boarded door with cambered head.
Interior
Plain interior with pine pews and no gallery.
Reason for designation
Included as a small mid C19 chapel with definite rural character and part of a special historic group with the vestry.
Nearby in the register
- Vestry to Bethel ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Milestone on B4520Transportunder 1 mi
- Bridge HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridge to SW of Traihirion (partly in Honddu Isaf community)Transport1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.