Welshpool, GB

Pentre Llifior Methodist Chapel

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A "Georgian Gem" of a chapel built in 1798 with a wealth of history to explore. Currently Grade II listed and included in T J Hughes's "Wales Best One Hundred Churches" (Seren, 2006) and a registered Methodist Heritage site. Why do we have a beer barrel (albeit empty) on the premises? Well pay us a visit and find out, you'll be surprised.

About this building

Built in 1798 this Georgian Chapel is a registered Methodist Heritage Site as well as a "living" chapel. Visit us to learn about our story - who built the chapel, who were the itinerant ministers and what are their connections with other parts of the world, how were we involved with the slave trade and why do we have a beer barrel on the premises!!! We are featured in Christoper Wakeling's book "Chapels of England" (Historic England, 2017) despite being in Montgomeryshire, Wales and are described by him as a prime 18th Century Wesleyan wayside chapel. Since the start of renovation in 1999, the visitor experience has been much improved with pew runners, display boards and items of Wesleyana on display.

Key Features

  • Architecture
  • Interior features
  • Atmosphere / quiet space
  • Social heritage
  • Famous people or stories

Visitors information

  • Level access to the main areas
  • Car park at the building
  • Accessible toilets in the building
  • Café in the building
  • Dog friendly
  • Muddy boot friendly
  • Space to secure your bike

Regular events

  • Bacon Buddies (social drop-in) - FREE bacon bap and cuppa every 2nd Saturday of the month 10.30am - 12 noon. This event operates by donation only.

Other nearby buildings

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St Peter

In a tiny hamlet right on the Welsh border, is a very special church, black and white both inside and out, and wonderfully picturesque and rustic looking.
There has been a place of Christian worship in Melverley for about a 1000 years. In 1141 Ordericus Vitalis mentions a ‘wooden chapel on the banks of the river above Shrewsbury'. In 1401 this church was burnt by the Welsh chieftain Owain Glyndwr. It was rebuilt in 1406 from local oak.

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St Chad

This rather extraordinary parish church, set on a spacious green hill above the River Severn, stands in stark contrast to Shrewsbury's medieval streets and mainly Tudor townscape.

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St Stephen

Old Radnor was an important centre of Welsh princedom of Powys before the Normans arrived and would have had a castle or administrative buildings. Across the lane from the church is a raised earth platform with a ditch around it that some have suggested was where the castle stood.

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