Former Mount Calvary Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 July 1999. Chapel.
Former Mount Calvary Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-oriel-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1999
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Former Mount Calvary Baptist Chapel is a late Gothic style building constructed from coursed rock-faced sandstone with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roofs. It features a gable front with a porch tower on the left and a hipped stair wing on the right. The chapel has a basement and two storeys.
The main gable displays four rectangular basement windows below a plinth, and four rectangular ground floor windows framed in ashlar, which are flat-headed with recessed ogee heads. A sill band runs beneath a large pointed, ornately traceried five-light window, above which is an ashlar band in the gable topped with a cross finial. To the right, a thin octagonal turret with ashlar quoins has a blank panelled section below the gable level and a similar turret above with an ogee domed cap and cross finial. The right wing features a broad basement door with an ashlar flat lintel and incised tracery, as well as an ashlar eaves window band with inset shaped heads to the lights, which include two lights on the front, one on the canted side, and one on the south end. The canted hipped roof is steep.
The tower on the left has two-stage clasping buttresses leading up to a deep parapet with panelled ashlar corner piers and a recessed steep slate pyramid roof. There are steps leading up to a broad segmental arched doorway with chamfered jambs and a moulded head. Above this is a band under a first-floor rectangular ashlar light with inset tracery, and a cambered-headed broad traceried five-light window. The north side mirrors this design but features two rectangular ashlar windows on the ground floor.
The five-bay north side includes a basement, three-step buttresses, and rectangular ashlar windows with quoined jambs and flush sill bands. The south side is similar but has yellow-brick window frames.
During the conversion to flats, most windows were reglazed with timber windows, retaining the leaded lights of the main and tower windows. The front door has also been replaced.
Inside, the ornate interior with curved-fronted cast-iron galleries has been significantly altered due to the insertion of flats, although some roof trusses are still visible in the inner hall.
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