Building Name

Horeb Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Brithdir), Rhos-Y-Brithdir

Date
1873
District/Town
Rhos-Y-Brithdir
County/Country
Montgomeryshire (Powys), Wales
Architect
Work
Re-building
Contractor
E. Evans, Llanfyllin

Horeb Methodist Chapel was built and opened in 1840. then rebuilt in 1873. The present chapel, dated 1873, was designed by architect Richard Owens of Liverpool and built in the Simple Round-Headed style with a gable entry plan. The entrance has yellow vitreous brick bands and the stone front gable plaque is inscribed "Horeb/ Wesleyan Chapel/ 1873." The centre doorway is segmentally-headed with a two-pane fanlight with coloured-glass margin panes and has tall flanking round-headed windows. There are two-bay returns: the right hand is stone and with yellow brick dressings and the left hand is rendered. At the front, the chapel has a stone dwarf wall with short iron railings and a gate, the uprights of which are alternately looped at the top in pairs. Inside, the chapel has vertically-boarded dado, painted plaster walls, and an open timber roof. The windows have coloured glass margin panes. The late nineteenth century open-bench seats have shaped seat ends, single centre and two side blocks. Wood-panelled entrance lobby with end doors from the chapel.