Ebenezer Baptist Chapel Hall

Ebenezer Baptist Chapel Hall is a prominent building located in a narrow side street off High Street, near the railway station. It was built in 1862 and is possibly designed by Rev Thomas Thomas. Originally, it served as the Ebenezer Chapel of the Welsh Independents.

The chapel features a striking 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 with egg-and-dart capitals, along with linking impost and cill-bands. The recessed center has an inscribed tablet above a stepped triple light, which is framed by architraves and tracery. There is a balustraded apron over the entablature leading to a tetrastyle Doric portico in antis. The side bays contain bipartite windows that match the detailing of the central section.

To the left, there is a two-storey hall added in 1894, designed in a similar style, featuring three lights above four lights, with a central pilaster and a doorway that interrupts the cill band. At the rear, there is an attached house with a scrolled entrance to the Mission Hall, which is not of special interest.

Inside, the chapel has a spacious rectangular layout with a boarded and ribbed ceiling, adorned with rich acanthus foliage around twin roses and groined coving above the street window. A continuous gallery sweeps down below a Gothic organ-case at the north end, with a classical pulpit in front, pilasters, a modillion cornice, and gold stencilling. The platform has sinuous balustraded handrails with volute brackets supporting the reading desk. Tapering cast-iron columns with acanthus leaves and egg-and-dart capitals are located under the gallery. The interior also features well-crafted panelled box pews and Greek wall tablets.

The chapel is noted on the "Swansea Local Board of Health Map" from 1852, and an inscribed tablet on the building reads: "Ebenezer: Erected 1803 Enlarged 1826: Rebuilt 1862."