We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 52.2519 / 52°15'6"N
Longitude: -4.2298 / 4°13'47"W
OS Eastings: 247883
OS Northings: 263868
OS Grid: SN478638
Mapcode National: GBR DK.09GM
Mapcode Global: VH3JL.MNQK
Plus Code: 9C4Q7Q2C+Q3
Entry Name: Bethel Chapel
Listing Date: 23 May 1996
Last Amended: 23 May 1996
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 17473
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Bethel Chapel
ID on this website: 300017473
Location: Situated some 100m N of Aberarth Bridge, on W side of river, facing up Water Street.
County: Ceredigion
Community: Dyffryn Arth
Community: Dyffryn Arth
Locality: Aberarth
Traditional County: Cardiganshire
Tagged with: Chapel
Calvinistic Methodist chapel built in 1848. Some alterations recorded in 1900, possibly the porches.
Roughcast rubble stone with slate bracket-eaved roof, and two iron ridge ventilators c1900. Broad lateral front of two big 24-pane main windows, 12-pane outer gallery lights over added gabled porches with ledged doors. Centre plaque: `Bethel Aber-arth Addoldy yr Trefnyddion Calfinaidd Adailadwywd yn y flwyddyn 1803 Ail adailadwyd yn y flwyddyn 1848'. Plain raised cement surrounds to openings and raised strips at outer angles.
Roughcast W end with 16-pane window. At NW angle added stable and coach-house, with ground floor window and door, loft window above. The loft has end-wall cart-entry, as built into bank. Yellow-brick heads to openings. E end has 16-pane ground floor window and boarded loft opening.
No galleries, raked interior with tightly packed painted-grained box pews, in six blocks radiating outwards from 5-sided passage around centre block of pews, which surround the great seat and pulpit. Pulpit with fretwork panelled front. Plain plastered walls and ceiling.
The chapel is the principal building in Aberarth, an unusually closely-built village, and retains its character as a simple but spacious lateral-fronted chapel, still with original box-pews.
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings
