Capel Salem including forecourt railings is a Grade II* listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 September 1999. Chapel.
Capel Salem including forecourt railings
- WRENN ID
- winter-pinnacle-falcon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 September 1999
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel Salem is a chapel built with unpainted roughcast and features a slate close-eaved roof. The long wall facade has arched openings, all adorned with cut grey limestone voussoirs, keystones, and impost blocks. It includes two central windows with a lozenge date plaque between them, two shorter outer gallery lights positioned higher, and two doors located between the central and outer windows. The windows have small panes and intersecting tracery at the heads, while the door fanlights are also detailed. The doors are six-panel designs. The rear wall is two stories high with two windows on the ground floor that have 20th-century plastic frames.
In front of the chapel, there are iron railings on a coped limestone wall, featuring scrolled spearheads, urn stanchions, and paired gates with a scrolled mid-rail, dog-bars, and top-rails that ramp down. A scrolled iron overthrow completes the entrance.
Inside, there is a pulpit on the entry wall and a galleried interior supported by three iron columns. The gallery has a simple front with curved angles, vertical panels, and a moulded top rail. The interior boasts an exceptionally fine set of painted panelled box pews that are raked towards the back wall, with ramped ends and fielded panels. The centre features a double block of four pews deep, with corner blocks on each side that are four deep to the back wall and three deep to the side wall. There is also a small block of three inward-facing pews located under the enclosed gallery stairs. The curved cornered set fawr has fielded panelling, with entrance doors positioned between the curves and corners of added entrance lobbies. The pulpit is simple and three-sided, with canted sides, single panels, a wine-glass stem, and steps leading up from the right, featuring scrolled tread ends, stick balusters, and a turned newel. The tall timber panelled pulpit back has a cornice. The gallery pews are similar in style, painted, panelled, and steeply raked. The ceiling is plain and altered, featuring a small 20th-century rose.
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