Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Capel Soar
Trallong, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Soar, Brecon, Trallong, Powys, designated on 27 May 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 27 May 2005
- Locality
- Soar
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Trallong
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.97743, -3.49911
- Cadw reference
- 84440
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)
- 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
Situated in Soar hamlet, on bank on W side of lane.
History
Chapel of 1827, altered in 1874.
Exterior
Chapel, unpainted stucco lined as ashlar with slate eaves roof, with brackets under gable verges. Tall arched windows with Georgian Gothic glazing, one window each side of door in entrance front, the door plain boarded with cambered head. Date plaque above. Two windows on right end wall and two on rear wall. Stone sills.
Interior
Plain interior with end-wall pulpit platform with balustrades and plain bench pews.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a rural chapel still in the late Georgian style, with entry on the long wall.
Nearby in the register
- House at SoarDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone call-box at Soar (01874 636331)Communicationsunder 1 mi
- Twyn-y-GaerHillfortunder 1 mi
- Aberyscir Round CairnRound Cairn1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.