Berachah Presbyterian Church is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 December 1999. Church.
Berachah Presbyterian Church
- WRENN ID
- other-quartz-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 December 1999
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Berachah Presbyterian Church is a chapel dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of rock-faced brown stone with grey sandstone ashlar dressings, a slate roof, and red terracotta ridge tiles. The building has a two-storey, winged gable front, with a central moulded pediment and narrow wings topped with parapets which are returned windowless on the side elevations.
The building has a plinth, a moulded first-floor sill course, and outer flush quoins. Raised piers and pilasters flank the centre of the main facade. The ground floor piers are ashlar with rock-faced stone, while the upper floor has ashlar pilasters with moulded capitals. The pediment features an apex block and an iron finial. The wing parapets rise with minimal corbelling below, and incorporate raised angle blocks and squat, square, moulded finials, with ashlar blocks beneath the angles, also with corbelling. Flush ashlar surrounds are present throughout. Above the central gable is a blank roundel with a moulded keystone and curved hood, inscribed "Berachah". A large first-floor Palladian window has a keystone and a hoodmould that continues flat over the sidelights. The building features small-paned timber windows with moulded mullions, including a 3-light arched window with square top-lights and leaded lights in the arch, and narrow 2-light sidelights with top-lights. The first-floor side windows are arched with keystones and curved hoods, sharing a similar glazing pattern to the centre sidelights. The ground floor has similar windows on each side and a central arched door with a keystone and hoodmould, flanked by a small-paned roundel each side, also with keystones and hoods, the hoods linked to the door hoodmould. The double boarded doors include a 3-light fanlight with marginal glazing bars and coloured glass.
The side walls are treated with whitewashed stucco, rising two storeys and four windows in width, with brick eaves and cambered-headed sashes. The ground floor sashes have four panes, while those on the first floor have eight panes, further subdivided into eight small panes. To the right of the main facade is a vestry constructed in rock-faced stone with a heavy whitewashed coping to a pedimental gable, a stucco roundel, and a stucco triple arch to the ground floor, incorporating a door and two windows, all with keystones.
The interior features a boarded, three-sided ceiling divided into five bays and supported by ribs springing from corbels. Five pierced timber round vents are present. A three-sided gallery, with canted angles resting on seven Corinthian cast-iron columns—part-fluted—runs around the space. The gallery front is crafted from pitch pine with a cornice under long panels. The pews are arranged in three blocks, with the side blocks canted, some facing inward on either side of the pulpit. The pews have fielded panels to the backs and shaped ends. The "set fawr" (communion table) has canted angles, a panelled back, and newels at the entries. The pulpit features steps with turned balusters, squat balusters over panels to the shorter outer sections, and a projecting canted front of 1-2-1 panels. The seating in the pulpit recess features panelled fronts with ornate capitals to the hoodmould, complete with a keystone.
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