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
22275
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/09/1999
Date of Amendment
01/04/2003
Name of Property
Capel Sittim
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanegwad
Town
Carmarthen
Locality
Felingwmisaf
Easting
250861
Northing
223761
Street Side
Location
Situated in Felingwmisaf, E of the river and the B4310 and on a minor road S to Felin Mynachdy.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Early gable-ended Baptist chapel built 1817, rebuilt 1845-8 and restored 1874. Vestry added and new pulpit with set fawr in 1886.
Exterior
Chapel, unpainted roughcast with slate roof. Plain gable front with arched window each side of Tudor-arched door. Windows have later C19 timber 2-light tracery, door is panelled with Y-tracery overlight. Plain raised surrounds. Side walls have 2 similar arched windows, rear outbuilding probably stable and vestry, with hipped roof, ground floor small window and door, first floor sash window (door to rear). Baptismal tank in grounds close to rear wall.
Interior
Pulpit on rear wall, early to mid C19 gallery on entrance wall on 3 plain timber columns, vertical panels alternately narrow and broader. Open back bench seats. Lobby beneath with small traceried window with coloured glass, entrance doors in canted sides. Fine set of painted grained box pews, panelled, with centre block, and inward-facing raked side blocks. Plain rose to flat ceiling.
Later C19 platform and set fawr, set fawr 3-sided with moulded top-rail and open back. Pulpit has square projecting front of 3-bays with thick Gothic column shafts and shaft rings. Each bay is open above and panelled below shaft ring with rectangular panel and roundel. One-bay sides. Similar squat turned column shafts to stair balustrades each side, thick moulded rail. Plain arched recess behind with door into vestry.
Reason for designation
Listed, despite its plain exterior, for its "transitional" plan form and for its simple interior retaining painted, grained box pews and a rare rear gallery with open-backed pews.
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