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
19016
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/11/1997
Date of Amendment
28/02/2005
Name of Property
Carmel Independent Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Nantmel
Town
Locality
Carmel
Easting
305412
Northing
266576
Street Side
Location
Set back on the N side of a minor road N of the A44, approximately 2km ENE of Nantmel.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Early C19 chapel, said to date from 1829.
Exterior
Early C19 chapel. Rubble (painted), slate roof, with finial to L. Two storey, 4 window front. Pair of central 12-pane windows whose upper panes are treated as Gothic arches. Beyond these at upper level, square 4-pane windows with cusped gazing to upper panes. Below these, camber-headed doorways with boarded doors.
Interior
Unspoilt interior retaining early C19 character. Pulpit and set fawr enclosure placed centrally against front wall; steps with turned balusters. Gallery on 3 sides on wooden posts has panelled wooden frontal and clock; steps in rear L corner. Wooden benches.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II* as an especially fine and well-preserved early C19 rural chapel.
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