Bethany English Baptist Church and attached Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 October 1999. Church.
Bethany English Baptist Church and attached Sunday School
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1999
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Deep gable-fronted chapel. Of snecked rubble, with snecked rockfaced stone to the staircase bays, part-tooled ashlar dressings; rendered to side; Welsh slate roof with ridge ventilators. Gable end frontage has paired round headed gallery windows with keystone; a roundel in apex above the datestone. Stepped forward below is the porch bay with paired round-headed doorways with horizontally panelled doors and wrought iron guard to the parapet above. Projecting on each side are the 5-sided staircase bays with half conical roofs surmounted by metal finials, billet-moulded eaves band, rounded-headed windows with keystones to the 3 front faces at first floor level, square headed below; moulded plaques between. Coloured glass in decorative leading to the windows which have moulded lintels. 6-bay side chapel elevation has round-arched gallery windows, cambered-arched to ground floor, each bay separated by a painted rendered pilaster intersecting at right angles with a continuous hoodmould over the ground floor windows; all windows with moulded keystones and shallow sills. Attached to rear is the Sunday School wing mostly of red and yellow brick with horned sashes to 7 ground floor bays and clerestory lights above.
Interior is long, with 4-sided raked gallery with painted panelled front and bracketed soffit supported by 6 columns on each side.The choir gallery has a painted balustraded front stepped down in front of the pipe organ; behind are the quarried lights to the Sunday School. Below is a fine wide polished wood pulpit enriched with round-arch mouldings to top tier, panelled below, a copy of that in Spurgeon Tabernacle London; platform has polished wood rail and decorative wrought iron balusters. Bapatistry underneath platform; no set fawr; to either side part-glazed swing doors to the Sunday School. On walls to sides are plaques to the ministers of the church, including founder Margaret David. Scribed render, boarded dado and angled pews. Ceiling has coving and 18 decorative wooden panels within a frame incorporating a central rosette with ventilator. Fine vestible with decorative plasterwork, staircases in the two turrets with turned balusters and decorative newel posts; decorative glazing to the interior doors. Side windows are 6-pane with one pull-down casement; some coloured glass.
Schoolroom hall to rear is 2 storeys high, on one side the rear choir and organ gallery supported on tall cast iron columns and the other a balustraded gallery with the boarded partitions for the schoolrooms, the walls with painted text. Similarly the ground floor has half-glazed wooden partitions each with a central door and windows either side which can be raised to enlarge the hall area. Woodblock floor.
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