Capel Ebenezer is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 July 1999. A Victorian Chapel. 3 related planning applications.
Capel Ebenezer
- WRENN ID
- wild-cupola-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1999
- Type
- Chapel
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a chapel constructed in 1830 and rebuilt in 1874. It is built of squared brown and grey sandstone with flush ashlar dressings and a slate roof behind a coped and shouldered front gable. The design is unusually architectural, featuring a three-bay front with a broad arched recess for the centre first-floor window and tall, narrow arched recesses for the side windows, the latter extending down to the ground with battered plinths on each side. Stone voussoirs form the arches. The centre has an arched door with a flush ashlar stilted head and small ashlar-framed roundels on either side. A moulded ashlar sill course runs across the centre. Flush ashlar bands are visible under the gable coping and across the facade. A band across the gable bears a flush plaque inscribed "Ebenezer," along with the inscription "Built 1830 Rebuilt 1874." Further bands are located at the impost levels of the centre and side recesses. Grey stone flush bands flank the centre door and run across the facade above the battered plinths. The side windows consist of two tall, narrow lights with a small roundel above, set within rusticated flush ashlar surrounds. The centre window has four short, narrow arched lights, two large roundels above, and a small detached roundel at the top. The building has panelled double doors and small-paned windows.
The east side wall features four tall arched recesses with battered plinths to the piers, stone voussoirs, and a flush ashlar impost band. The first arch contains two long, narrow lights and a roundel; the other three have arched upper windows with stone voussoirs and two narrow arched ground-floor lights. The west side is similar, but the brick arches are exposed where the render has decayed. The north end has two arched windows to the first floor and a roundel vent in the gable. A rubble stone vestry, likely dating from the early 19th century and possibly the chapel of 1830, adjoins the north end. This vestry has fine, large arched windows of two lights each, featuring a Y-shaped mullion, small-paned glazing, and intersecting tracery to the heads. There are two windows on the north side and one to the right of the west gable end. A whitewashed rubble addition with a stack on the right end, possibly a former chapel house, is located at the east end.
The interior features a three-sided gallery supported by iron columns with acanthus-leaf capitals. A deep stencilled cove is present, along with fretwork fringe under the boarded gallery front, which includes a narrow strip of pierced decorative cast-iron. An arched recess is located on the rear wall behind the pulpit. A lobby has doors in the canted side walls and a centre window. The vestry has a later 19th-century roof with iron ties.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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