Ebenezer Baptist Chapel Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. A C19 Chapel.
Ebenezer Baptist Chapel Hall
- WRENN ID
- narrow-merlon-vale
- 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 Hall, Castle
- OS grid reference
- SS 656 936
- Coordinates
- 51.62587, -3.94229
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
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."
Local climate
Ebenezer Baptist Chapel Hall 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings