Trinity Congregational Church and attached Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 December 1998. Chapel, Sunday School.
Trinity Congregational Church and attached Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- sombre-outpost-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1998
- Type
- Chapel, Sunday School
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Chapel of coursed occasionally snecked rubble with dressings of pale ashlar and Bodmer's patent stone bricks; ashlar painted at entrance; Sunday School and E bay of nave rendered; Welsh slate roof to church, tiles to school, with overhanging bracketed eaves and boarded soffits. Plan of 6 bay chapel, the E end contemporary with the attached gabled Sunday School cross wing with porch. Set into the hillside, the W end facing downhill has antae continued diagonally to apex, a tripartite doorway with panelled doors and stepped round-headed arches with plain overlights and painted name inscription above; at gallery level is a matching tripartite window with small pane glazing to centre and roundels in heads to sides; keyed oculus in apex. Corners with decorative quoins and gable courses project slightly. This two dimensional quality is repeated on sides where each bay comprises a round arch to eaves height with decorative voussoirs and quoins; slighly recessed within the arch are the windows to each storey, round-headed with voussoirs and quoins to gallery, square-headed with lintels and quoins to ground floor, coved stone sills, metal framed glazing with single pane casements. Plinth. The later end uphill bay has a wooden Gothic-style window. Sunday School cross wing has nosed steps to central gabled porch with pointed arched doorway, double doors and hoodmould; 2 stepped windows to each side with similar window to E nave with hoodmoulds. Above in relief is an inscription panel with name and date and inset into walls numerous dedication stones.
Interior has raked galleries to four sides, to sides and rear with painted panelled fronts and zigzag decoration to base, supported on very slender cast iron columns. The organ gallery is set within a wide moulded-arched recess with inscription above and moulded motifs within the orders; decorative cast iron gallery front with Art Nouveau motif; a large organ occupies the gallery at first floor level. Below is the pulpit with double flight of steps with decorative balusters and finials, altar table below, door with coloured margin glazing to rear left. Ground floor has boarded walls, angled pews. Post-war ceiling with metal trusses and 2 ventilators, boarded roof to organ loft. Half glazed double doors to vestibule with terrazzo floor and the two gallery staircases. Sunday School has half-glazed schoolrooms numbered 1-10, all boarded in panels, central hall with stage, boarded dado and ceiling in panels; rear windows renewed.
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