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Latitude: 51.4629 / 51°27'46"N
Longitude: -3.5905 / 3°35'25"W
OS Eastings: 289607
OS Northings: 174968
OS Grid: SS896749
Mapcode National: GBR HC.M5KY
Mapcode Global: VH5HQ.QH6D
Plus Code: 9C3RFC75+5R
Entry Name: Bryn Sion Presbyterian Chapel
Listing Date: 22 September 1988
Last Amended: 3 March 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11350
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Bryn Sion Presbyterian Chapel
ID on this website: 300011350
Location: Located on the E side of Pen-y-lan Road on the hillside above the village centre. The chapel is cut into the hillside within its own enclosure of rubble stone walls surmounted by iron railings.
County: Vale of Glamorgan
Community: St. Bride's Major (Saint-y-Brid)
Community: St. Bride's Major
Locality: St Brides Major
Built-Up Area: St Brides Major
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Chapel
The chapel is dated 1859. The Calvinistic Methodists are said to have first met at St. Bride’s Major in 1794 at Pen ucha dre Farm. A chapel was erected in the village in 1824, though it is not clear whether it was on the same site as the current chapel, which was built at a cost of £400 through the endeavours of the Rev. Edward Matthews. It would seem that the first full-time minister was the Rev. Charles Williams who was inducted to the pastorate in 1883.
Small Gothic-style chapel. Gable-end entry with lateral side facing road. The N gable end is in snecked masonry, whilst the W side and S gable end are rendered over. Fish-scale slate roof, freestone quoins and dressings, wide boarded eaves. Diagonal buttresses to NE and NW angles. Central boarded double doors under pointed arched head, with fanlight containing intersecting tracery. Flanked by tall windows with similar pointed heads, with intersecting tracery under the head and small panes. In the gable is a recessed stone tablet bearing the inscription ‘BRYNSION / 1859’. The S gable end has 2 windows as to the N. The W side has 1 window with intersecting tracery under the head and large panes below. One window to E.
Gallery at N end supported on 2 cast iron piers with staircase to E. No other features in situ.
Listed as a good example of a small Gothic-style chapel.
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