Bethlehem Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 October 1998. Chapel.
Bethlehem Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- riven-portal-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1998
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Simple classical style, gable entry chapel. Main front is of irregularly coursed rock-faced sandstone masonry with ashlar quoins, including the later vestry block at left. Sides and rear rendered. Slate roof with barges on painted brackets. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Fenestration in two storeys, with sash windows above and below linked by sunk panels. The windows generally incorporate 12-pane sashes, but the glazing bars of the upper sashes of the upper windows are adapted to contain a circle concentric with the window head. Margin-light arched head windows to vestry.
Cast-iron railings and matching gates at front, with large cast-iron gateposts at the chapel entrance and smaller cast-iron gateposts at the vestry entrance.
Plain anteroom with symmetrical doors into chapel and stairs leading to gallery. Seating in four blocks with seating each side of pulpit facing inwards. Cadair fawr with curved corners. Interior dominated by a fine pulpit with two-tier hardwood panelled front decorated with Ionic pilasters. Gilded and painted metal screen to left and right of pulpit. Symmetrical pulpit stairs with similar metalwork beneath handrails. Wall to rear of pulpit is in large panels with hardwood pilasters and entablature and a central arch. Broad-panelled gallery front incorporating central clock. The gallery is carried on seven cast-iron columns. Large decorative plaster roundel at centre of ceiling.
Later vestry and schoolroom at left, the latter retaining its original fixed desks.
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