St John's Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1951. Chapel.
St John's Chapel
- WRENN ID
- hidden-beam-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brecon Beacons National Park
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1951
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
U-plan with chapel to left and schoolroom/reading room to right. 2-storey rubble elevations with plinth, slate roof and brick chimney stack. Gable parapet and broad kneelers to schoolroom repeated on right side and rear elevations. Timber frame leaded windows, 1 cross frame to right side; voussoir lintels and Tudor labels. Pointed entrances, with voussoirs and keystones, to schoolroom and chapel boarded and studded doors. L-plan single storey extension to left with small forecourt. Pointed arch bellcote to left over chapel aligned N-S; crucifix to N end. Bell inscribed "Edward Wellington CW 1718" - by Henry Williams. Rounded SE corner and outside steps to rear.
Interior of the chapel has a reredos of Jacobean richly carved oak from Chipford and formerly of domestic use. The oak alter is from Whitney. To right is a portrait sculpture (style of Donatello) signed B Wilson, Florence 1898. One grilled opening retained in schoolroom.
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