Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Entrance gates and rails to Penuel Baptist Chapel
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 19 May 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1981
- Community
- Carmarthen
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85999, -4.29952
- Cadw reference
- 9548
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)
- 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)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 10m NE of junction with Penuel Street.
History
Entrance gatepiers, gates, and railings to Penuel Baptist chapel dated 1879, ironwork by T. Jones and Co., Priory Foundry.
Exterior
Chapel entrance gates and rails. Dwarf walls of snecked rubble stone with painted ashlar coping. End piers of similar stone, each with ashlar cross-gabled caps, the front gablet of left pier inscribed "AD" and the front gablet of right pier inscribed "1879". Iron railings with arches and finials. Ornately pierced square cast-iron gate posts with patterns of quatrefoils and trefoils in panels, and cross gabled caps. Iron scroll overthrow with ornate cast-iron scrolls and tapering glass lamp with iron finial. Double gates of similar design to railings.
Reason for designation
Included as a notable piece of cast-iron work, made locally, and for group value with Penuel Baptist Chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Penuel Baptist Chapel and attached schoolroomReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former Priory Street School with walls and railingsEducationunder 1 mi
- The King's ArmsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Railings, gates and gatepiers to St John's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.