Penuel Baptist Chapel

Penuel Baptist Chapel can trace its origin to 1757, when linen-draper and part-time preacher Stephen Davies founded the first chapel on the opposite side of the road to Penuel's current location. Situated in Old Chapel Yard, the congregation was granted formal incorporation by the Baptist Association in 1778, with Davies as their pastor. Over the next several years, monies were raised for the building of a new chapel, which allowed the site to be purchased in 1786. The building was extended in 1797, before being rebuilt in 1817 and again in 1851–52. In 1909–10, Penuel Chapel was fully renovated, to such an extent that only the walls and roof remained from the previous building. Much of its…

Penuel Baptist Chapel is set back from the road by a stout iron railing fence. The chapel has a broad gabled facade and a large, uncluttered interior in a classical style. It has galleries on all four sides, the downward-pointing timber posts creating quasi-aisles. The corners of the galleries are curved and the fronts of the galleries have panels with balustrades. The organ is in a recess on one of the galleries and underneath this there is a free classical arcaded pulpit behind which is a curved and panelled back with pediments. The church was designated as a Grade II listed building on 9 February 1999, being "a chapel of early origins with exceptional early C20 interior, unusual for the…