Carmarthen Cemetery Chapel

Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Elim Road, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 19 May 1981.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Carmarthen Cemetery Chapel, Carmarthenshire, 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: 19 May 1981
Locality: Elim Road
Community: Carmarthen
Unitary authority: Carmarthenshire
Country: Wales
Coordinates: 51.86382, -4.31993
Cadw reference: 9431

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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)
1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1898 · 229 Carmarthen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

Location

Situated in cemetery some 400m N of Lime Grove House.

History

Cemetery chapel of 1855-6 by William Wesley Jenkins, built as one of 2 chapels to the Borough Cemetery, proposed in 1853. Plans were received in 1854 from James Wilson, R.K. Penson and W.W. Jenkins, Penson's were chosen and then rejected. Jenkins' plans chosen in 1855 were for 2 chapels, walls, and entrance gates, the chapels being for Anglicans and nonconformists. Opened in 1856 by Bishop Thirlwall, and the churchyard of St Peter's was then closed for burials. One of the two chapels and entrance gates have been demolished.

Exterior

Cemetery chapel, rubble stone with ashlar dressings and slate gabled roof. West gable end has buttresses each side gabled at mid height and at tops. Gable has broad ashlar band below coping with small plain corbel blocks. At apex is blocking course with gabled ashlar masonry above, probably the truncated remains of a bellcote. Roundel window with ashlar trefoil above moulded pointed ashlar doorway with mouldings dying into chamfered jambs. Hoodmould with carved head stops, double ledged doors with iron strap hinges. N and S side elevations each have 2 pairs of 2-light lancet windows with leaded glazing, sill band, small corbels under eaves gutters, gabled buttress each end against a raised wall-pier. Coped E gable, short lower chancel.

Interior

Plain interior with plastered walls, open timber roof, and small chancel.

Reason for designation

Included as a mid C19 cemetery chapel in Gothic style.

Nearby in the register

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

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