Montgomery Presbyterian Church is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 2000. Church.

Montgomery Presbyterian Church

WRENN ID
iron-passage-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 July 2000
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Chapel, pale greenish tooled squared stone with sandstone ashlar yellow-brown dressings possibly Grinshill stone. Slate roofs with 2 metal ventilators and red crested ridge tiles to main roof and the slates banded on the steep hipped roofs of the wings which also have iron finials. Imposing front of 3 bays, the centre advanced, shallow-gabled and clasped by 2 stepped buttresses with finials. The outer bays with hipped roofs at right angles do not project beyond side walls and have 2-step side buttresses like those down side walls. Heavy tooled plinth, centre stone steps up to ashlar moulded arched doorway with hoodmould continued out to buttresses. Panelled double doors in chamfered frame with stone traceried fanlight. Gothic octofoil in fanlight. Moulded course under first floor pair of ashlar arched lights with pilaster centre, the moulded base and capital repeated on outer jambs and the capital moulding continued around buttresses. Florentine tracery in stone, 2 arched lights with roundel. Ashlar paired arches with hoodmoulds. Coped pedimental gable with moulded verges and thin lower string broken for a roundel with ashlar quatrefoil tracery. Buttresses have raised panelled block each side of pediment, under square piers with ashlar cornices under tiny curved pediments backing onto sharp pyramid finials. Wings have single long Florentine window each with hoodmould and carved stops. Bracketted sills over foundation stones. Ashlar eaves cornice, the top moulding only continued around return bay. Side walls are rubble stone, 4 bays of 2 arched lights with 5x2-step buttresses, the return bay to facade only with ashlar moulded eaves, the rest plain eaves.

Interior not available for inspection.

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