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Latitude: 52.2467 / 52°14'48"N
Longitude: -4.0931 / 4°5'34"W
OS Eastings: 257202
OS Northings: 263015
OS Grid: SN572630
Mapcode National: GBR DR.0MD3
Mapcode Global: VH4G4.0SJJ
Plus Code: 9C4Q6WW4+MQ
Entry Name: Bethania Chapel
Listing Date: 23 May 1996
Last Amended: 23 May 1996
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 17480
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Bethania Chapel
ID on this website: 300017480
Location: Situated some 500m S of Bethania crossroads, on E side of road to Cilcennin.
County: Ceredigion
Community: Dyffryn Arth
Community: Dyffryn Arth
Locality: Bethania
Traditional County: Cardiganshire
Tagged with: Chapel
History: Calvinistic Methodist chapel of 1832, altered 1872-3 by James Williams of Aberystwyth, builder, according to the plaque.
Exterior: Whitewashed stucco with slate roof. Lateral front, quite tall with two arched centre windows, two slightly smaller arched outer gallery lights and two flat-headed doors, not aligned with gallery lights but set slightly in. 1872 8-pane glazing, stucco moulded hoods with keystones and patterned stops, and angle quoins. C20 6-panel doors. Plaque between centre windows, signed by James Williams. Whitewashed rubble stone N side and rear, slate-hung S side. 12-pane upper sash each end wall. Rear has three 12-pane sashes above and two larger 12-pane sashes below.
Interior: Five-sided gallery with front panelled in long horizontal panels and square panels, decorated with stencil patterns. Deep overhang with brackets over eight plain iron columns. Flat plaster ceiling. Raked floor with pitch-pine pews, narrow balustraded great seat, pulpit with ball-finials to newels, canted front with punched decoration. Two ornate iron brackets for oil lamp globes attached to pulpit. Pews have carved wood stands for oil lights.
Listed as a surviving lateral fronted chapel of the 1830s with renewed facade and good interior of 1872.
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