Ebenezer Chapel including chapel house and hall is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 February 2001. Chapel, chapel house, hall. 3 related planning applications.

Ebenezer Chapel including chapel house and hall

WRENN ID
rooted-floor-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 February 2001
Type
Chapel, chapel house, hall
Source
Cadw listing

Description

This is a large, early 20th-century chapel of an unusual apsidal plan, exhibiting Art Nouveau detailing. It is accompanied by a chapel house, hall, and schoolroom. The main chapel is T-shaped, with single-bay wings extending to the east and west of the set fawr (chancel area) and a canted end creating the apsidal form. A porch is located in the north-east angle. To the south of the chapel are the vestry and chapel house, and a schoolroom and hall lie to the southwest.

The building is constructed of brick with pebbledashed elevations, a smooth rendered plinth, and dressings. The roof is slate, with red clay ridge tiles, and a finial adorns the north gable. Elaborate parapet gables with tall finials and Tudor-Gothic windows with hood moulds decorate the wings, porch, and the central face of the apsidal end; a continuous sill band runs across the apsidal end. Other windows are square-headed and transomed. The chapel house and hall have simpler designs; the hall features small-paned sash windows and buttresses along the west wall. The rear of the chapel has a gabled entrance front to the house, with a doorway on the left and four-pane sash windows.

Entrance to the chapel is at the north end, with the set fawr located at the opposite end. The main body of the chapel contains pitch pine box pews arranged around the side walls, with a central rank having staggered dividers. The roof features dividing beams with arched braces down to wall posts resting on shaped corbels. The east and west wings each have a single roof bay. Each roof bay has recessed plaster panels with moulded dividers and central, gridded, and pierced ventilation grilles. The set fawr is raised by two steps and has splayed corners and side entrances. Recessed facing panels form a Tudor-arch headed “arcade” beneath a moulded rail. The pulpit is rectangular, raised by four steps with side entrances and matching panel detail. The chapel walls are plastered, with the lower half featuring tongue and groove panelling, which ramps up behind the pulpit, set back in two stages and sheltered by a moulded hood. Half-glazed, panelled doors flank the set fawr, leading to a corridor providing access to other areas of the building. The leaded windows display Art Nouveau-style floriate motifs.

The corridor beyond the chapel connects to the hall/schoolroom to the right, the vestry to the front (with the chapel house beyond), and external access to the left. The hall/schoolroom, raised by two steps, is a spacious room capable of being divided by folding, half-glazed doors. It has three roof bays at the north end and two at the south, each featuring pierced floriate ventilation grilles and moulded dividers. The hall has plain plastered walls, with tongue and groove panelling in the lower half, ramping up at the south end. Dark brown glazed tile fire surrounds with cast iron fires and floriate tiling to the hearths are present in each division. The vestry, also with tongue and groove panelling, includes a small Art Nouveau-style fire in the southwest corner.

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