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
17473
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
23/05/1996  
Date of Amendment
23/05/1996  
Name of Property
Bethel Chapel  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Ceredigion  
Community
Dyffryn Arth  
Town
 
Locality
Aberarth  
Easting
247883  
Northing
263868  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated some 100m N of Aberarth Bridge, on W side of river, facing up Water Street.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Calvinistic Methodist chapel built in 1848. Some alterations recorded in 1900, possibly the porches.  

Exterior
Roughcast rubble stone with slate bracket-eaved roof, and two iron ridge ventilators c1900. Broad lateral front of two big 24-pane main windows, 12-pane outer gallery lights over added gabled porches with ledged doors. Centre plaque: `Bethel Aber-arth Addoldy yr Trefnyddion Calfinaidd Adailadwywd yn y flwyddyn 1803 Ail adailadwyd yn y flwyddyn 1848'. Plain raised cement surrounds to openings and raised strips at outer angles. Roughcast W end with 16-pane window. At NW angle added stable and coach-house, with ground floor window and door, loft window above. The loft has end-wall cart-entry, as built into bank. Yellow-brick heads to openings. E end has 16-pane ground floor window and boarded loft opening.  

Interior
No galleries, raked interior with tightly packed painted-grained box pews, in six blocks radiating outwards from 5-sided passage around centre block of pews, which surround the great seat and pulpit. Pulpit with fretwork panelled front. Plain plastered walls and ceiling.  

Reason for designation
The chapel is the principal building in Aberarth, an unusually closely-built village, and retains its character as a simple but spacious lateral-fronted chapel, still with original box-pews.  

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