Bethel Chapel and Forecourt Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1997. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.

Bethel Chapel and Forecourt Railings

WRENN ID
graven-banister-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 1997
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

Description

A large building with the entrance facade facing N away from the road. Rock faced snecked stone with old slate roof. Entrance front symmetrical, with a central pair of doors with fanlight in a shallow gabled porch. Two storeys of 8-paned sashes, with limestone heads and sills to openings, the upper windows round headed, the lower segmental, both keyed. Large central tablet giving the date of constructions. One painted zinc pyramidal roof vent set centrally to ridge. To the rear a single storey vestry and 3-bay schoolroom with hipped roof and 8-paned sashes, canted at the corner.

The forecourt is paved with blue stable bricks and has cast iron railings of 1896 by J.D.Davies of Machynlleth mounted on a low slate coped wall.

Raked gallery around two sides with a panelled and balustraded front, all supported on fluted Composite columns. Panelled pulpit with classical panelled Ionic reredos and a half-round fan head. Numbered pews. White marble wall tablets to William Howell and wife, d.1854 and 1862.

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