Ebenezer Wesleyan Chapel, forecourt wall and outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 September 2000. Chapel.

Ebenezer Wesleyan Chapel, forecourt wall and outbuilding

WRENN ID
rooted-wattle-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 September 2000
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Ebenezer Wesleyan Chapel, along with its forecourt wall and outbuilding, dates to the 1830s and 1850s. The chapel itself is constructed of unpainted stucco with a slate roof, featuring brackets to the eaves and verges. The main entrance is through a large, off-centre gabled porch in the left side wall, which has rusticated quoins and a round-arched doorway. The door consists of five long pointed panels, a radiating-bar fanlight, and a moulded arched hoodmould with a keystone. The porch windows are large 24-pane sashes.

The front gable has rusticated quoins, two long arched windows, and a lunette plaque, similar to those found at Ponterwyd Chapel. The plaque reads "Ebenezer Ystumtuen Wesleyan Chapel Built in the year 1838 rebuilt in the year 1858". Above this is a late 19th-century rectangular plaque with a moulded border and raised lettering reading "Capel Ystumtuen". The windows on the front and side elevations have small panes and radiating bars in the heads, with the front windows being covered by moulded arched hoodmoulds with keystones, possibly added in the late 19th century. The rear gable features a boarded loft door.

The forecourt is enclosed by rubble stone walls with square gate piers marking the front left and return sides, connecting to another gateway in the front right corner. These gates are wrought iron with dog-bars and heart-shaped finials on both the mid-rail and top-rail. The walls are topped with cement coping, inset with white stones. An attached, low rubble stone outbuilding stands to the left of the front wall, with a chimney at the southeast corner and a door and window facing the chapel courtyard. The roof of the outbuilding features slates cut in a fishscale pattern.

Inside, the chapel is a broad, near-square space without galleries. Box pews are arranged steeply raked, in twelve steps, to the back wall, creating two aisles. The pews are panelled with painted graining on the ends and fronts, finished in brown with cream panels. Shaped bench ends and ramped top rails add to the detail. A central open space is furnished with loose benches, and inward-facing pews are positioned on either side of a projecting great seat with curved angles and bench seats. The pulpit is compact, with dark-painted graining and a heavy moulded cornice. The left side of the pulpit is solid, while the right side is a hinged door leading to steps with a turned newel and handrail. A painted-wood pulpit back features panelled pilasters and a moulded arch with delicate trefoil cusping. The flat plaster ceiling is adorned with a central acanthus rose and four roundels.

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