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
17480
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
23/05/1996  
Date of Amendment
23/05/1996  
Name of Property
Bethania Chapel  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Ceredigion  
Community
Dyffryn Arth  
Town
 
Locality
Bethania  
Easting
257202  
Northing
263015  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated some 500m S of Bethania crossroads, on E side of road to Cilcennin.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
History: Calvinistic Methodist chapel of 1832, altered 1872-3 by James Williams of Aberystwyth, builder, according to the plaque. Exterior: Whitewashed stucco with slate roof. Lateral front, quite tall with two arched centre windows, two slightly smaller arched outer gallery lights and two flat-headed doors, not aligned with gallery lights but set slightly in. 1872 8-pane glazing, stucco moulded hoods with keystones and patterned stops, and angle quoins. C20 6-panel doors. Plaque between centre windows, signed by James Williams. Whitewashed rubble stone N side and rear, slate-hung S side. 12-pane upper sash each end wall. Rear has three 12-pane sashes above and two larger 12-pane sashes below. Interior: Five-sided gallery with front panelled in long horizontal panels and square panels, decorated with stencil patterns. Deep overhang with brackets over eight plain iron columns. Flat plaster ceiling. Raked floor with pitch-pine pews, narrow balustraded great seat, pulpit with ball-finials to newels, canted front with punched decoration. Two ornate iron brackets for oil lamp globes attached to pulpit. Pews have carved wood stands for oil lights. Listed as a surviving lateral fronted chapel of the 1830s with renewed facade and good interior of 1872.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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