Ebenezer Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 February 1981. Chapel.
Ebenezer Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- crooked-kitchen-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1981
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Ebenezer Baptist Chapel, built in 1844, is a notable example of its type. The front elevation is roughcast with painted stucco detailing and decorative fretwork bargeboards. A raised string runs across the pedimental gable, and raised quoins are present. It features two long arched windows, each with early 20th-century leaded glazing in a two-light tracery design, with a roundel likely dating to 1884. A central 20th-century double door is set within a stucco frame of pilasters, a moulded arch and a keystone. The fanlight above the door has Georgian Gothic tracery, reflecting the probable original glazing pattern of the windows. A rectangular plaque within a moulded frame reads "Ebenezer Baptist Chapel erected in the year 1844."
The left side of the building is slate-hung for two-thirds of its length, followed by another long arched window. A probable addition of 1905 is constructed of rubble stone with red brick dressings and another arched window. The right side is entirely roughcast with two long arched windows. A rear addition of rubble stone, dating to the early 20th century and located on the north-east corner, has a south-facing six-panel door and overlight within a red brick surround. An arched window on the east side mirrors the tracery and leaded glass of the main chapel windows. The north gable has two leaded cross windows. A lean-to is attached to the rear, resting upon the right roof slope of the north-east addition.
Inside, a three-sided gallery from 1884 is fronted by continuous double-curved cast-iron work in a neo-rococo style, likely designed by Macfarlane of Glasgow. Seven cast-iron columns with scrolled caps are confirmed as a Macfarlane design. The gallery curves at the ends, with a quadrant-curved projection of 1905 where the gallery front joins the pulpit wall. The columns are set back and have brackets beneath a moulded wood cornice beneath the iron frontal. The pews are arranged in three blocks, with the outer ones canted. The entrance lobby features a coloured glass, two-light, leaded Gothic window leading to the chapel, alongside two double-panelled doors. An end wall timber pulpit has canted corners and Gothic cusped arches with column shafts, paired with Gothic matching balustrades to the side steps. There is also a three-sided, open-backed set fawr. Behind the pulpit is an arched organ loft with a panelled and balustraded front, although the organ itself is absent. The chapel’s ceiling is flat, with a small cornice and an ornate rose featuring spiral leaves encircled by triple mouldings of two types of scroll and linked fleurs-de-lys.
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