Plough United Reformed Church is a Grade II* listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 December 1976. Rectory.

Plough United Reformed Church

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 December 1976
Type
Rectory
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Large chapel. Pebbledash and smooth render; painted stone dressings. Pedimented elevation to Lion Street with blind arcading in the tympanum; terracotta finial and balustrades. Below the pediment, 3 round-headed window openings with keystones and pilasters and round-headed sash windows with margin lights. On ground floor, pedimented porch and flanking pedimented bays, pediment of porch resting on pair of narrow fluted columns in antis and each flanking bay, with a paired 2-pair round-headed window. North-western return of two storeys, 3 bays with horned small pane sash windows with horns and glazing bars. Similar SE return. To rear, lower block with sloping roof.

Magnificent interior with particularly rich woodwork. Elaborate panelled ceiling with concentric roses and rosette decoration; floral panels to spandrels. Balcony round all four sides of chapel on fluted iron columns; balcony frontal has arcading with floral relief decoration; arched panels flanked by ebonised columns; clock. Pews also to gallery; large pipe organ. Fitted pews; those to sides curved. Set fawr enclosure with wooden panelling; arcade above panels below; curving stairs up to semi-octagonal pulpit with arched panels with floral decoration; ebonised columns. Stained glass panel of ploughing. Wooden stairs to gallery have turned newels etc; tiled floors. Vestry to rear has plaque "Welsh Independent Chapel Built 1841 On Premises First Appropriated To Protestant Dissenters in 1699"; other mid C19 marble memorials transferred from former chapel in Glamorgan Street when congregations merged in 1923.

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