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
5712
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/10/1972
Date of Amendment
04/03/1998
Name of Property
Soar Chapel and chapel house
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Bodedern
Town
Bodedern
Locality
Bodedern
Easting
233464
Northing
380227
Street Side
W
Location
Located on the SE outskirts of Bodedern. The chapel stands in a square garden demarcated by a low wall, with the adjoining chapel house having a separate garden.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
A simple chapel with attached chapel house, dating from 1822 with some later remodelling. The chapel was the birthplace of the Wesley Bach Movement, which was a result of restrictions placed on Methodist preachers in 1831. It remained in use by this Movement until 1904, when it reverted to the Welsh Wesleyan Methodists.
Exterior
Simple long wall entry chapel with attached chapel house to left (S). Grit-rendered stone walls, pitched slate roof with crested ridge tiles. Three round-headed windows in stressed architraves with 6 panes each, arranged 2-1 either side of the door. Small gabled porch with round-headed door. The chapel house to left is a two storey, 2 window range with a door to right. The roofline continues at the same level as the chapel, with a chimney to the left gable end, and at the division between the house and chapel. Rendered walls and recent sash windows and ledged door.
Interior
Entrance leads into the chapel with set fawr to the right; rectangular with opposing front entrances and sides formed by tongued and grooved panelling to the lower part with shaped splat balusters under a moulded rail and chamfered newel posts. Pulpit is canted with side entrances raised by 2 steps; facing panels are of recessed diagonally-set tongued and grooved panels with moulded surrounds, set under a lombard frieze and moulded cornice and with chamfered newels either side. Pews are in 3 ranks, with tongued and grooved panelling to lower part of painted plastered walls; behind the pulpit is a recess framed by a stilted arch with advanced moulded sides and set on corbels. The ceiling is also plastered with raking sides to moulded cornices.
Reason for designation
Listed as a simple early C19 rural chapel and attached house, retaining early character.
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