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
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 March 2004
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Anglican chapel of ease, coursed thin rubble stone with whitewashed render on W and S walls and slate roof. Simple Gothic style single vessel with W bellcote and W porch. Base of walls is slightly battered, windows are pointed with stone voussoirs and stone sills, apparently early C19, one window to N, two to S and one larger to E. Windows and door of 2002, the windows Y-traceried, the E window 3-light with intersecting Y-tracery. W end has stone bellcote with single triangular-headed opening and coped gable. W porch has pointed doorway, stone voussoirs, and coped shouldered gable. C20 double doors. S side of porch has an inset C18 gravestone. S side of church has two windows with exposed stone voussoirs and crude keystones, and the stone voussoirs of a very roughly pointed head of a blocked door exposed to left, voussoirs of a shallow cambered head set low in wall to right. E end has 3-light window with C20 wooden glazing and stone voussoirs and tooled stone sill.
Inner W door has plain square head. Church interior has plastered walls and plastered deep cove to the ceiling around a wood-panelled centre rectangle of late C19 date, with diagonal boarding. Small red and buff quarry tiles to floors, crude timber pulpit of later C19 with diagonal-boarding to lower panels and pierced panels above, to 4 canted sides. Late C19 iron Gothic standards to altar rails. Highly unusual and presumably C18 font whitewashed stone with semi-sphere bowl, moulded around rim and bowl striated in a crude gadrooning. the base is a tapering column with moulded big cap over a shaft that tapers downward to a moulded base. The lid of wood has a shallow octagonal ogee dome with finial.
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