St John's United Reformed Church and schoolroom is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 April 1977. Almshouses.

St John's United Reformed Church and schoolroom

WRENN ID
stubborn-bracket-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 April 1977
Type
Almshouses
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Chapel, yellowish stone with dressings and quoins of paler Bath stone. Slate roofs, Gothic style. Gabled facade to South Parade, cross-gabled aisles and 3-stage tower with broach spire in angle between E front and N aisle. Coped gable with finial, side buttresses with long set-offs, plinth and ashlar first floor flush sill band. Paired pointed 2-light windows with roll-moulded arches, column shafts with carved capitals and roundel above lights. Stone voussoirs. Centre big doorway with pointed roll-moulded arch, column shafts and inset shouldered headed entry with double doors. Hoodmould carried across each side as string course and stepped as hoodmould over small lancet each side. Side aisles have 4 separate coped gables, 3 with single lights, slightly larger end gables have paired lights. Stepped buttresses between. NE corner has tower, SE corner is not built on. NE tower has 3 stages divided by string courses, with quoined buttresses on angles of E and W sides, terminated with gablets at base of third stage. Pointed N doorway similarly roll-moulded with column shafts, second stage with plain lancet each face, and third stage with flush quoins, chamfered corners and a clock on the 3 visible faces. Corbels above under heavy ashlar broach spire. This has splayed base under square stage with nook shafts and tall shouldered-gabled surround each side to pointed louvred bell-opening. Imposts of pointed openings are at level of base of spire proper with gables standing clear of base, which is then broached from square to octagonal. The total height is 24m. Coped W gable to rear and big schoolroom across rear, with broad half-hipped end wall to Warren Street, three pairs of long shouldered-headed lights above high string course. Gabled porch with coped gable and pointed arch to left between schoolroom and chapel NW corner. Attached to W side wall of schoolroom are single storey classroom projections, squared grey limestone with ashlar dressings. Two coped gables facing W, the left one smaller, with 3-light mullion window in side wall to Warren Street. The right one projects further and is entered by side wall gabled porch across face of left gable. W end stepped triplet of shouldered-headed lights, the taller part of centre light blind. Cross gable to right, facing S.

Gothic aisled interior with thin iron columns carrying deep arched trusses and also raking struts carrying axial purlins. Triple-arched feature to end wall with restored rose window with stained glass. Moveable drum pulpit and pitch pine pews. Gallery at entrance end.

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