Chapel of ease to the Church of St Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 March 2004. Chapel.

Chapel of ease to the Church of St Margaret

WRENN ID
buried-stone-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 March 2004
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Chapel of Ease to the Church of St Margaret is an Anglican chapel built from coursed thin rubble stone, featuring whitewashed render on the west and south walls, and a slate roof. This simple Gothic style building has a single vessel design, with a bellcote and porch at the west end. The base of the walls is slightly battered, and the pointed windows, which have stone voussoirs and stone sills, date from the early 19th century. There is one window on the north side, two on the south side, and a larger window on the east side. The windows and door were replaced in 2002, with the new windows featuring Y-tracery, and the east window being a three-light design with intersecting Y-tracery.

The west end includes a stone bellcote with a single triangular-headed opening and a coped gable. The west porch has a pointed doorway with stone voussoirs and a coped shouldered gable, featuring 20th-century double doors. An 18th-century gravestone is inset into the south side of the porch. The south side of the chapel has two windows with exposed stone voussoirs and crude keystones, along with the stone voussoirs of a very roughly pointed head of a blocked door on the left, and voussoirs of a shallow cambered head set low in the wall on the right. The east end has a three-light window with 20th-century wooden glazing, stone voussoirs, and a tooled stone sill.

Inside, the west door has a plain square head. The interior features plastered walls and a plastered deep cove around the ceiling, surrounding a wood-panelled rectangle from the late 19th century with diagonal boarding. The floors are laid with small red and buff quarry tiles. There is a crude timber pulpit from the late 19th century with diagonal boarding on the lower panels and pierced panels above, having four canted sides. The altar rails are supported by late 19th-century iron Gothic standards. A highly unusual font, presumably from the 18th century, is made of whitewashed stone with a semi-spherical bowl, which has a moulded rim and a bowl striated in a crude gadrooning. The base consists of a tapering column with a moulded cap over a shaft that tapers downward to a moulded base. The wooden lid has a shallow octagonal ogee dome topped with a finial.

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