Tirzah Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 June 2000. Chapel.

Tirzah Baptist Chapel

WRENN ID
far-pillar-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 June 2000
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a small Baptist chapel, built in 1905. The exterior is rendered with a slate roof, featuring a small finial at each end. The front of the chapel is pedimented and includes a plinth and rusticated quoins worked into the render. A central doorway is flanked by a single window on each side, all featuring keyed arches and rusticated jambs also worked in the render, with stone sills. Small metal ventilators are located beneath each window. The windows have timber mullions that extend upwards to a Y-shaped design at the head, and timber glazing bars. The double doors have two-panel leaves and similar glazing bars in the head. The side and rear elevations are also rendered, with a slight plinth. The side elevations feature segmental-headed window openings with timber mullion and transom windows, top ventilators, and timber glazing bars. There are no windows in the rear elevation. The front of the chapel displays the name "Tirzah" in the pediment, with the wording "Baptist Church Built 1905" inscribed beneath in raised lettering. Steps lead to the door, with a steel handrail.

The interior is accessed via a framed pine entrance porch, featuring moulded cornices, double-panelled doors, a transom with obscured glazing for borrowed light above, and matching panelling and glazing on the sides. The interior includes a full-width combined pulpit and organ loft, with a single staircase on the left side. The front of the loft features a balustrade with turned balusters, a moulded dark-stained handrail, pierced decorative brackets, turned dark-stained newels at each end, and framing the projecting pulpit. The pulpit itself has canted sides, a moulded rail, round-headed panels with a Celtic Cross motif within the pierced panels, panel colonnettes, and a moulded base, all above a plain boarded plinth. The organ is housed in a shallow round-headed recess at the rear, decorated with pilasters and an arch, below which is the painted wording "Enter into His courts with praise" in red. Boarded dado panelling is present on each side. The seating consists of school benches that are not fixed to the floor. The dado of the pulpit is extended around the chapel at a lower height. The ceiling is boarded at collar beam level, with four main panels decoratively stencilled at the corners and defined by ribs. A central lozenge contains a ventilator, with narrow panels and ventilators at each end.

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