Capel Heol Dŵr, Carmarthen

Capel Heol Dŵr
Location Water Street, Carmarthen
Country Wales, United Kingdom
Denomination Calvinistic Methodist chapel
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade II
Designated 19 May 1981
Architectural type Chapel
Style Early 19th century

Capel Heol Dŵr is a Calvanistic Methodist chapel in the town of Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The building dates from 1831 and is located at Water St, Carmarthen. It was designated as a Grade II listed building on 19 May 1981.

History

Capel Heol Dŵr was an early Methodist chapel, having been built in 1831. The long-wall frontage has a pair of pedimented porches on Tuscan columns, each having a large arched window above. The interior has a five-sided gallery. The box pews are neatly fitted, radiating to match the gallery. There is a most unusual pulpit; this is shaped like a wine-glass with a curved flight of steps. A similar pulpit is to be found in the nearby Capel Heol Awst, Carmarthen which was built in 1826, but these pulpits are rare elsewhere having disappeared when alterations and enlargements were made to chapels. The ceilings are boarded and ribbed and have a large plaster rose. There is fine stained glass and several noteworthy monuments.[1] The chapel was refurbished in 1891 and again in 1922, when additions included a new stucco front, a new ceiling and a new organ bay at the middle of the front facade.[2]

The chapel was designated as a Grade II listed building on 19 May 1981, being an example of a fine "earlier C19 chapel with surviving interior fittings including gallery of 1831".[3] The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales curates the archaeological, architectural and historic records for this church. These include digital photographs and colour transparencies of the exterior and interior of the building, from the Rosser Collection and the Robert Scourfield Collection.[2]

In 2016 it was announced that the chapel would close due to rising costs and a decreasing membership.[4] Broadcaster Huw Edwards has supported a campaign to maintain the building.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Thomas Lloyd; Julian Orbach; Robert Scourfield (2006). Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. Yale University Press. p. 136. ISBN 0-300-10179-1.
  2. 1 2 "Capel Heol-y-Dwr Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Carmarthen". Coflein. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Capel Heol Dwr". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Historic Carmarthen chapel could close as costs rise and congregation falls". South Wales Evening Post. 16 July 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "Newsman Huw Edwards visits Carmarthen over chapel's future". South Wales Evening Post. Retrieved 2 November 2016.

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