Moriah Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 March 1992. Chapel.

Moriah Baptist Chapel

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 March 1992
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Front has raised ashlar plinths, quoins, sill course below long flanking arched windows and heavy cornice. Upper mouldings of pediment are in painted timber. Oval painted plaque in pediment: 'Moriah Baptist Chapel 1870'. Sill course is interrupted for two arched doorways in ashlar surrounds with keystones. Panelled doors. Above, a broad arched window with keystone, rusticated jambs and timber mullions dividing a tripartite window with marginal glazing bars and arched heads. Long side windows have similar arched heads, keystones and rusticated jambs. Marginal glazing bars. Side elevations have 4 similar long windows in ashlar surrounds, but without rustication. Sill course and moulded timber eaves. Four glazing bar sashes to basement with stone voussoirs. Rendered 2-storey rear projection.

Fine interior, galleried on 4 sides with ornate curved and pierced cast-iron fronts, swept down behind pulpit. 3 x 3 cast iron columns beneath. Pulpit has steps each side, cast-iron gilded balusters, and carved panelled front. Plain 'set fawr'. Coved ceiling with exceptionally rich panelling in plaster and 4 rose vents. Organ in wide recess of west end gallery.

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