Bethany Chapel Market Street

Main details

 

Address:
Present Occupier:
Present Owner:
Ground Floor:
Other Floors:
Date when first used by present occupier:

Bethany Chapel 

Mrs Pauline Griffiths

Art gallery, retail and cafe basement

Exhibition and performance space above.

 

Before and After Images

 

 1979/80

 2016


 

About the building

 

The Bethany Baptist Church was originally known as Lion Street Chapel. A certificate (D3156/65, Gwent Archives) was completed by the Minister of the Bethany Baptist Church starting that the church was used as a place of worship before 30 June 1852 and will continue to be so used. Another certificate (D3156/66) issued by the Superintendent Registrar of Abergavenny District states that Bethany Church has been registered for the solemnization of marriages 1858. A new chapel was constructed in 1882 on the present site.

The chapel of 1882 was designed by E A Johnson of Abergavenny and built by local contractor J G Thomas at a cost of £1,240. It is listed Grade 11 and the listing gives details of the interior before it was recently refurbished.The exterior remains unchanged. Built of  red brisk with Bath stone dressings and a red sandstone basement and a Welsh slate roof. Details can be found on the listing description. The chapel is raised to street level and has steps to an entrance terrace.

Work was completed to renovate the building in early 2015.There is a restaurant and art shop at ground floor (basement) level and an exhibition and performance space on the first floor. Repairs included replacing the roof, cleaning the brickwork and replacing the bath stone mouldings, lifts were installed internally and externally without damage to he fabric.

 

 

Recent history

The chapel ceased to be a place of worship in 1990. Following this it was used as a Museum of Childhood, and as a community recycling project “Homemakers” before being used as a site office while the Brewery Yard was refurbished.

In early 2015, it became the art gallery, cafe, retail space on the ground floor (basement) and an exhibition and performance space above on the upper floor.

 


 

Previous occupiers

Year

Name

Detail

Source

1970

Bethany Chapel

Baptist place of worship

local knowledge

1937

Kelly

1934

Kelly

1930

Car/Npt & Dis

1926

Kelly

1923

Kelly

1920

Kelly

1914

Kelly

1910

Kelly

1909

Kelly

1906

Kelly

1901

Kelly

1895

Kelly

1891

Kelly

1882

Bethany Chapel built

Kelly

1879

Thacker

1877

Owen

1875

Mer & Croc

1871

Kelly

> 1868

1865

1862

Morris & Co

1858

Slater

1850

Pigot

1845

Pigot

1844

Slater

1841

Slater

1835

Pigot

1834-45

Pigot

1834

Car/Npt & Dis

1822

Pigot

1792

Pigot



 


 

Other information

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