Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
17406
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/04/1996
Date of Amendment
01/04/1996
Name of Property
Bethlehem Chapel with house
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Llanfair Caereinion
Town
Locality
Dolgead
Easting
308825
Northing
308188
Street Side
SE
Location
Located alongside the main road to Meifod, 550m from Neuadd Bridge junction with the A458. The main entrance is approached directly from the road by a cobbled path, the forecourt is enclosed by cast iron railings and gat
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built for the Calvinistic Methodists in 1834 at a cost of £200 to seat 135 and shown as Penybrin Chapel and House on the Tithe Map. The Welsh Presbyterian Church of Llanfair Caereinion had two daughter chapels, the Bethlehem Chapel at Dolgead and Capel Soar near Melin-y-grug. The original square building had a single door in the SW side approached by a path. This was altered in 1884 (date on porch gable), when the adjoining house was rebuilt, and two doors made in the front facing the road and covered by a long lean-to porch. There was also a stable for the minister's horse.
Exterior
Single Chapel room with N porch and 2 storey, 2 bay house added at W end. Rock-faced local dark stone with a slate roof. The lean-to porch has a central gable over a boarded door, with side lancets. The main body of the chapel has two windows on each of 3 sides with margin glazed timber 'Y'-tracery, those to the front having flashed yellow glass and applied frosting. The caretaker's house is of one bay, with side door, and 2 rooms on each of 2 floors. Modern windows in original openings.
Interior
Seats c100 persons. Walls plastered up to a Gothic moulded frieze at the base of a coved ceiling, which has a central roundel. Cantilevered pulpit raised against an arched feature on the SE wall with moulded hood, and panelled sedd fawr below.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a small rural chapel with added minister's house.
Group Description
Bethlehem Chapel with house including wall and railings
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