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
23992
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/09/2000
Date of Amendment
19/09/2000
Name of Property
Gates and railings to Bethel Calvinistic Methodist Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Cynwyl Elfed
Town
Carmarthen
Locality
Cynwyl Elfed
Easting
237286
Northing
227607
Street Side
Location
Situated in front of Bethel Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, in a prominent position in the main street of the village of Cynwyl Elfed.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Gates and railings to Calvinistic Methodist chapel, probably of 1881 when the chapel was renewed. Railings made by the Priory Foundry, Carmarthen.
Exterior
Gates and railings to parabolic curve plan. Rock-faced stone low walls, with painted slate ridged coping, stepped up to follow line of hill from centre entrance gates. Low cast-iron railings to intersected pattern with top and bottom rails and spearhead finials. Centre double gates hung on two thin square cast-iron posts with cornices and urn finials. Double gates with similar detail to railings but in 3 slightly varied rows and with double bottom rail.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of Carmarthenshire foundry work, of group value with Capel Bethel.
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