Latitude: 51.6754 / 51°40'31"N
Longitude: -4.7744 / 4°46'27"W
OS Eastings: 208271
OS Northings: 201048
OS Grid: SN082010
Mapcode National: GBR GC.SGM6
Mapcode Global: VH2PR.64BZ
Plus Code: 9C3QM6GG+57
Entry Name: Bethel Congregational Chapel
Listing Date: 14 May 1970
Last Amended: 1 August 1996
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 6011
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Bethel Congregational Chapel
ID on this website: 300006011
Location: In the village of St. Florence, 100 m SE of the Church, on a corner site facing N with a lane at the W side.
County: Pembrokeshire
Town: Tenby
Community: St. Florence
Community: St. Florence
Locality: St Florence Village
Built-Up Area: St Florence
Traditional County: Pembrokeshire
Tagged with: Chapel
A Congregational chapel was established in St Florence before 1805, with visiting ministers. The first resident minister was appointed in 1819. The name Bethel was that of the first chapel, and was retained when the present chapel was built in 1858. The chapel opened in June 1859. The name of the designer has not yet been ascertained. It closed in 1988 and private domestic conversion commenced in 1995.
There is space at the front and sides of the building. Gates flanked by railings on a low wall at the front and a wall returning at the W side facing the lane.
Single-storey chapel in a warm grey sandstone. The front elevation is in snecked hammer-dressed ashlar masonry with a high plinth. Lighter coloured sandstone for the dressings of the windows and doors and for the name-tablet above. Slate roof. The front gable elevation has two windows. Three-light windows with mullions interlacing. Simple hood-mould. Four-centred doorway with a stopped chamfer. Plain boarded double doors. At high level there is a large tablet consisting of a trefoil feature surrounding a ribbon with the inscription 'Bethel 1858' beneath a hood-mould.
The side elevations are of coursed rubble masonry with similar windows but with no hood-moulds. Two windows in each side elevation. The rear elevation is a plain wall, slate-hung.
Listed as a neat village chapel with simple gothic detailing.
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