Bethany Chapel, including area gate piers and railings is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 April 1996. Chapel.

Bethany Chapel, including area gate piers and railings

WRENN ID
scattered-cellar-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 April 1996
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Front boundary wall of rock faced stone with painted ashlar coping; end and gate piers with deep plinths, painted moulded string courses and cross roofed capstones; part finialed metal railings and central gates.

Rectangular plan of 2 storeys originally of 3 bays in length enlarged to 7 with curved pseudo transepts. Of painted rendered stone and brick with Welsh slate roof. Gable facade has channelled render with plain slightly recessed 2 storey bays incorporating 3 window range of renewed round headed 4/2 pane horned sashes with stone sills under channelled voussoirs and keystone with impost band at abacus level; rectangular ground floor 4/2 pane sashes; a pedimented gable with cornice, renewed verges and inscription panel "Bethany Baptist Chapel 1873"; central doorway with stone step to imposing distyle portico with 2 freestanding and 2 attached columns with roll moulded capitals and bases and square plinths and abaci, heavily moulded entablature with decorative boarded ceiling, 2 stone steps to central double 5-panelled doors. Side windows are round headed 4/2 pane horned sashes above and rectangular 4/2 pane below.

Furnishings mainly date from enlargement. Entry from S into vestibule with black and white marble floor. Two staircases rising to 4 sided raked gallery supported on 9 cast iron columns with organ at front right; boarded dados and gallery soffit and panelled gallery fronts; decorative wooden ceiling with metal grilled ventilators; hoodmoulds to windows; platform has carved wooden pulpit and set fawr with classical detail and scrolled metal communion rail; numbered pews curving to sides, panelled downstairs and boarded above. Meeting room, former Sunday School, behind platform, modernised.

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