Latitude: 51.8565 / 51°51'23"N
Longitude: -3.1406 / 3°8'26"W
OS Eastings: 321540
OS Northings: 218163
OS Grid: SO215181
Mapcode National: GBR F0.T9LS
Mapcode Global: VH6CH.JL1N
Plus Code: 9C3RVV45+JP
Entry Name: Bethabara Baptist Chapel
Listing Date: 18 December 1985
Last Amended: 25 September 1986
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 7179
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Bethabara Baptist Chapel
ID on this website: 300007179
Location: Situated in a burial ground at the bottom of the street close to Crickhowell Bridge.
County: Powys
Community: Crickhowell (Crughywel)
Community: Crickhowell
Built-Up Area: Crickhowell
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Chapel
Dated 1840.
Plain classical 2-storey chapel, coursed bull-nosed rubble with slate roof and wide boarded eaves. 3-window front, open pedimented gable with inscribed tablet and 2-window side elevations. 16-pane sash glazing throughout, with Gothick intersecting glazing bars to semi-circular heads of 1st floor windows. Classical flat-roofed open porch with plain entablature on timber columns and double 3-panel doors.
Disused and in deteriorating condition (particularly to interior) at time of inspection, October 1985.
Rubble gate piers and iron railings to front.
Later vestry attached to NE end and not of special interest.
Retains interior with panel fronted gallery on cast iron columns with bell capitals. Plaster ceiling with ornate centrepiece. Big seat on square platform under tall blind semi-circular recess to rear wall. Pews canted towards platform.
Group value.
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