Ebenezer Baptist Chapel, is a Grade II* listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. Chapel.

Ebenezer Baptist Chapel,

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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
Chapel
Address
Ebenezer Baptist Chapel,, Castle
OS grid reference
SS 656 936
Coordinates
51.62597, -3.94228
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Ebenezer Baptist Chapel is a Grade II* listed building featuring a fine three-bay neo-classical facade with a steep open pediment at the gable, which may have been influenced by the designs of C R Cockerell. The facade includes a giant vermiculated arch supported by a broken entablature on angle pilasters, adorned with egg-and-dart capitals, and features linking impost and cill-bands. The recessed center has an inscribed tablet above a stepped triple light with architraves and tracery, and a balustraded apron over the entablature leads to a tetrastyle Doric portico in antis. The side bays have bipartite windows with similar detailing.

To the left, there is a two-storey hall added in 1894, designed in a similar style, featuring three lights over four lights, with a central pilaster and a doorway that breaches the cill band. An attached house with a scrolled entrance to the Mission Hall is located at the rear, although it is not of special interest.

Inside the chapel, the spacious rectangular interior boasts a boarded and ribbed ceiling, with rich acanthus foliage decorating twin roses and groined coving above the street window. An excellent continuous gallery sweeps down below a Gothic organ-case at the north end, with a classical pulpit in front, pilasters, a modillion cornice, gold stencilling, and sinuous balustraded handrails leading to the platform, which features volute brackets at the reading desk. Tapering cast-iron columns with acanthus leaves and egg-and-dart capitals support the gallery. The interior also includes good panelled box pews and Greek wall tablets.

Local climate

Ebenezer Baptist Chapel, sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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