Schoolroom at Capel Moriah is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 August 2002. Chapel.

Schoolroom at Capel Moriah

WRENN ID
crumbling-barrel-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 August 2002
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Schoolroom, built as Calvinistic Methodist chapel, unpainted render with slate half-hipped roof and red terracotta ridge tiles. Lateral facade with rusticated quoins, 4 arched windows, 2 arched doors and centre plaque. Two long centre windows with moulded arched hoods and keystones, 2 narrower outer gallery windows with similar hoods carried down further each side, and 2 6-panel arched doors in pilastered surrounds with similar moulded arches and keystones. C20 glazing, doors may be original mid C19. Right end wall has arched window above, square-headed window below. Left end window is blocked, ground floor small addition.

Plastered walls, flat painted boarded ceiling with simple ribbing and centre roundel. Five-sided painted timber gallery on 4 fluted iron columns. Gallery front is in long panels with turned column shafts between, the capitals under rounded projections in the moulded top rail, the bases above the deep lower cornice and frieze. The sides have 2 long panels, the canted angles one long panel each, and the centre 3 panels, 2 short ones each side of a centre roundel, originally for a clock. Original pews and pulpit removed. Plain boarded dado, and small plaster arched pulpit back between front windows, with undercut plasterwork to arch. Two glazed enclosed small lobbies. Rear has 2 arched windows above, in gallery, with marginal glazing bars. Door to vestry and window with marginal bars below. Sloping plastered underside to gallery. Plain panel-backed raked pews in gallery.

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