Bethlehem Baptist Chapel, including forecourt walls, gates & railings, is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 April 1992. Baptist chapel.
Bethlehem Baptist Chapel, including forecourt walls, gates & railings,
- WRENN ID
- tall-outpost-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1992
- Type
- Baptist chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bethlehem Baptist Chapel, built in 1855, is a Baptist chapel constructed from rubble stone with an unpainted rendered front and an imitation slate roof. The building features two-window sides and ends, with large pointed small-paned sash windows that have intersecting glazing bars, stone voussoirs, and slate sills. The end walls are designed with facades that are recessed under broad four-centred arches, which spring from raised angle piers topped with castellated caps. These raised piers have decorative bands at the level of the side-wall eaves.
The south entrance front is rendered and displays the words "Addoldy y Bedyddwyr" in raised letters. A recessed lozenge plaque in the center is inscribed with: "Bethlehem Built AD 1789 John Stephens Minister, Enlarged AD 1817 David Jones Minister, Rebuilt AD 1855 James Jenkins Minister." The pointed arched doorway features a Y-tracery head and intersecting glazing bars, with double single-panel doors. An open porch supported by thin painted timber columns has fretted bargeboards. The enclosed forecourt is surrounded by a squared rubble wall with slate coping and spearhead iron railings. Large painted stone gatepiers are located to the south and a matching pier is found at the southeast corner, both topped with pyramid caps and acorn finials. The matching iron gates, dated 1855, have an upswept top rail.
The east side of the chapel has a slate plinth that extends around the north end, which includes a basement door to the left and four windows, all featuring stone voussoirs. The west side has a late 19th-century roughcast two-storey northwest addition with a chamfered northwest angle, containing a square 12-pane sash window on the first floor to the west and north, and a 12-pane sash window on the ground floor to the north. Additionally, there is a southwest lean-to that extends forward as a monopitch-roofed structure, enclosing the west side of the chapel forecourt, constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof and roughcast on the west side.
Inside, there is a three-sided gallery supported by five marbled columns that carry flattened arches beneath a panelled gallery front. The flat ceiling features a central rose within a large moulded plaster circle adorned with a Greek key pattern, along with two pierced roundel vents to the north and south, and four small roses. The pulpit and organ were added in 1953, while the original grained pews remain. The entrance lateral passage includes three fixed lights with nine panes each into the chapel, doors on either side, and a plaster vault with moulded arches and brackets.
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