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Latitude: 52.1596 / 52°9'34"N
Longitude: -3.6772 / 3°40'37"W
OS Eastings: 285368
OS Northings: 252582
OS Grid: SN853525
Mapcode National: GBR Y9.62JY
Mapcode Global: VH5D6.6ZWB
Plus Code: 9C4R585F+R4
Entry Name: Moriah Chapel
Listing Date: 19 January 2001
Last Amended: 19 January 2001
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 24522
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Moreia Welsh Independent Chapel
ID on this website: 300024522
Location: Set back from the W side of the road through Abergwesyn and reached by a short path. The entrance is to the W end.
County: Powys
Town: Builth Wells
Community: Llanwrtyd Wells (Llanwrtyd)
Community: Llanwrtyd Wells
Locality: Abergwesyn
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Chapel
Independent chapel built in 1828 and rebuilt in 1867 to serve a rural community. The contemporary outshut is a stable. The entrance faces W because the road layout has been changed.
Small single-storey chapel with porch to W end and continuous outshut on N side. Constructed of rubble stone under a slate roof, rendered to the S side. The W end is slate-hung to the upper half and rendered below. Small gabled porch with planked door under a shouldered lintel bearing an inscription 'Moriah/Built 1828/Rebuilt 1867'. The S side is 2-window, both tripartite horned sashes with coloured margin glazing under flat heads. The E gable end has 2 similar windows under shallow segmental heads of stone voussoirs. To the R, leading into the stable outshut, is a boarded door with similar head. The N side has a planked door to the R immediately under the eaves.
Simple interior. Three-bay roof with canted boarded ceiling. Central bank of pews with carved bench ends and aisles to either side. Octagonal wood panelled pulpit to E end with blind trefoil-headed arches and open quatrefoils. Flanking stairs with turned balusters. There is said to have been a gallery along the S side at one time. Shaped marble tablet with triangular head behind pulpit, to Richard James (d. 1919), minister for 49 years. On the N wall is a simple marble tablet with triangular head to Morgan Jenkins, 1840-1921, draper of Swansea who was born at Penybont Uchaf, Abergwesyn. It is by E L Davies, Llanwrtyd. Stable to N not entered.
Listed as a fine, small, rural chapel with contemporary stable retaining its character in a remote upland location.
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