Former Horeb Welsh Presbyterian Church is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 May 1990. House. 1 related planning application.

Former Horeb Welsh Presbyterian Church

WRENN ID
riven-footing-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 May 1990
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

Description

The former Horeb Welsh Presbyterian Church is a small, rectangular building dating from the 18th century, constructed of coursed dressed stone with tooled dressings, and rendered to the sides and rear. It has a Welsh slate roof with boarded eaves and a gable finial. The front gable features large kneelers connected by a string course above a central, moulded plaque with an eroded inscription. Two tall, pointed arched windows with small-pane fixed glazing and intersecting tracery are set within chamfered surrounds and sills. Pointed arched doorways with matching tracery in the overlights and boarded doors are located on either side of the gable, with a stepped nosing to the left. A low clasping buttress is positioned to the left, and the right side adjoins a schoolroom. A battered plinth runs along the base. The side elevations contain single windows, similar to those on the front, with moulded render surrounds; two more windows are present at the rear. The chapel faces onto a yard paved with stone flags, and together with a later schoolroom and house complex is enclosed by a low wall built of rockfaced stone with piers featuring saddleback copings and tooled pyramidal caps, gates, and iron railings with decorative stanchions.

The interior, now used as a schoolroom, incorporates a raked gallery against the front wall. This gallery has bowed ironwork at the front, bracketed out to its base, and is supported by a single cast-iron Corinthian pier that curves slightly outwards against the side walls. A moulded ceiling cornice is present, and a curved wooden staircase leads up to the gallery.

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