Welsh Presbyterian Church is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 1998. Church.

Welsh Presbyterian Church

WRENN ID
steep-corner-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Caerphilly
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 December 1998
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Welsh Presbyterian Church is a small chapel built in the Gothic Revival style. It features roughly dressed, coursed, and snecked freestone with tooled ashlar dressings, particularly around the doors, which are painted. The main roof is tiled, with the chancel roof replaced, while the porch and vestry have stone tiles. The layout includes a nave with a bellcote, a chancel, a south porch, and a northeast vestry.

The west front showcases a three-light window with cusped heads, chamfered mullions, and a hood. There is a pointed arched west doorway with shield stops on the hoodmould and a door featuring large decorative hinges. The gabled bellcote holds a single bell and has a quatrefoil and a small lancet below it. The building has large quoins with kneelers, wide coping, cruciform finials, and sturdy cast-iron hoppers throughout. The south porch has a pointed arched entrance doorway that is hooded and chamfered, also featuring shield stops. Above the entrance is a square datestone inscribed with the letters A B H, representing the donors, Augusta and Benjamin Hall. The nave walls are plain with large rectangular windows that have trefoil-headed lights, deeply chamfered mullions, and square hoodmoulds with stops. The chancel has similar but smaller windows and a narrow priest's door. The east window mirrors the design of the west window.

Inside, there is a west gallery supported by slender cast iron piers, with a single flight of stairs rising at the northwest corner behind a glazed vestibule partition. The gallery front is draped and incorporates three coats of arms related to the donors, Sir Benjamin and Lady Augusta Hall. The nave roof features a four-centred arched scissor-braced design in very narrow bays, with wide splayed windows. The chancel arch is plain and pointed. On the south side, there is an unusual three-decker pulpit with Gothic moulding. The chancel includes Commandment Boards in Welsh on the east wall, and the heavy Gothic altar rails were sourced from the now redundant St Luke's church. The church has some figurative stained glass, particularly in the east window depicting the Crucifixion, along with some canopy work and mostly diamond quarry glass. Decorative iron lanterns over the aisle are noted in the account of the opening ceremony.

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