Bethany English Presbyterian Church is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 March 2000. Church.

Bethany English Presbyterian Church

WRENN ID
gentle-casement-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 March 2000
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Chapel, squared, coursed tooled grey-brown stone with slate overhanging roof. Flat eaves to sides, brackets to front verge. Broad gable front with pedimental gable, 2 long arched side windows, small Palladian centre window and large arched doorway. Tooled quoins. Gable has raised string-course below and small plaque 'Bethania Adeiladwyd 1858 Helaethwyd 1867'. Openings have tooled sandstone voussoirs and keystones. Small-paned glazing with radiating bars to window heads. Centre window has plain flat mullions and heads to narrow side lights and arched centre light. Panelled large double doors. Rough rubble stone to 2-storey, 3-window sides, the windows arched above, cambered-headed below, with red brick heads.

Panelled plaster ceiling divided by heavy moulded plastered ribs. Three-sided gallery with curved angles on 5 plain iron columns. Gallery has fine painted grained woodwork in 3 colours. Deep cornice in pale yellow tone, panelled front above in horizontal panels with moulded inset panels, all in dark brown tone, framed by panelled pilasters , top and bottom rail in paler tone. Pine pews in 3 blocks with shaped ends. Balustraded set fawr with turned newels and finials, echoed on steps up each side of pulpit platform. Broad platform has panelled front with canted sides to forward break. Plain vertical boarding behind obscuring part of plaster arched recess with moulded console capitals. blank arched window each side. Gallery pews have plain panelled backs and roll-mould tops. Lobby has centre window with etched and coloured marginal panes. Vestry behind has diagonal boarding to 3-sided roof.

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