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
20534
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/10/1998
Date of Amendment
16/10/1998
Name of Property
Baptistery at Pont Adulam
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanelli Rural
Town
Llanelli
Locality
Felinfoel
Easting
251840
Northing
202187
Street Side
E
Location
At east side of the bridge over the River Lliedi in Felinfoel.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The River Lliedi was used by Adulam chapel before the construction of their baptistery in the chapel grounds. The sacrament was first performed at Pont Adulam in the weir pool: the Rev. Benjamin Humphreys is said to have baptised hundreds here in the religious revival of 1905. A platform and steps were added probably when the bridge was rebuilt in the 1930s. Finally a concrete-walled pool was formed at the foot of the steps. The latter is remembered in use at least until the 1950s.
Exterior
Just above the weir across the River Lliedi, a railed platform built out from the E face of the bridge and steps leading down to weir pool, and the later wall of a reduced pool formed in concrete. The platform has steel railings on large decorative cast-iron standards.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusual example of an open-air pool for adult full-immersion baptism.
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