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Babell Chapel, Welsh Calvinistic Methodist, Blaen Dyryn

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NPRN6070
Map ReferenceSN93NW
Grid ReferenceSN9082036870
Unitary (Local) AuthorityPowys
Old CountyBrecknockshire
CommunityMaescar
Type Of SiteCHAPEL
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
Babell Chapel was built in 1859 in the Vernacular Style of the long-wall entry type. The chapel closed in 1940 when an artillery range was set up, and in 1999 remained disused.

RCAHMW, 21st May 2009.

Babell Chapel was the scene of an early demolition of a building within the military training area by the Ministry of Defence. In 1996 a memorial plaque was set up within the managed footings of the building recording that The Rev. W Jones Pentrefelin was the minister from 1909 to 1940. There is also a commemorative plaque bearing an emotive passage from Isaiah 2.4, which states that the chapel was built in 1857.

Site visit and photography by T. Driver, 19th March 2014, RCAHMW