Calvinistic Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 August 1999. Chapel.

Calvinistic Methodist Chapel

WRENN ID
strange-thatch-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 August 1999
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Calvinistic Methodist Chapel is a side entry chapel featuring two high windows situated between the doors. The front is rendered and painted cream, topped with a slate roof that has a tile ridge. The corners are rusticated in the render, and there is a slightly projecting plinth. The side elevations are rendered but not painted, with a small round ventilator in the right gable. The front elevation includes round-headed doors and windows, with arches decorated by a label moulding. The chapel has eight-pane timber windows and boarded double doors with fanlights. The rear elevation has similar windows.

Attached to the north is a vestry that is similarly rendered and coloured at the front, with a lower roof level and concrete roof tiles. It features three round-headed UPVC windows and a boarded door on the right.

The chapel has twin porches that are framed and boarded in pine, topped with a crenellated cornice. The porches have patterned tile paving and six-panel semi-glazed doors with overlights leading into the chapel. Inside, there is no gallery, and the pulpit is located on the side opposite the entrance porches. The main area contains four ranges of mid to late 19th-century pews arranged in eight rows with two passageways; the rear two rows are slightly raised, and the front pew has been altered to accommodate a harmonium, which was installed in 1966. The centre division is straight, and the side pews near the front are turned 90 degrees to face the pulpit. Each pew end has a metal number.

There is a simple sedd fawr with canted corners and a dado that rises behind the pulpit, featuring painted decoration on its frieze. The late 19th-century pulpit and its flanking staircases are made of pine. The pulpit front is canted, with boarding set within stilted arches, and has a dentil cornice and a panelled base. The stairs have a swept handrail with balustrades featuring turned balusters and newels. Behind the pulpit, there is a pedimented form in painted plaster, standing on the raised section of the dado and framing the words 'Molwch Yr Arglwydd'. The pilasters are enriched with a floral trail and painted, supporting an architrave and dentil cornice, with a painted block above the cornice. A decorative feature on the ceiling is surrounded by strip diagonal boarding. There is a door in the north wall leading to the vestry.

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