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Bryn Sion Presbyterian Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in St Brides Major, Vale of Glamorgan

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Coordinates

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

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History

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.

Exterior

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.

Interior

Gallery at N end supported on 2 cast iron piers with staircase to E. No other features in situ.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a good example of a small Gothic-style chapel.

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