English Baptist Church and walled forecourt is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 1998. Church. 1 related planning application.
English Baptist Church and walled forecourt
- WRENN ID
- vast-loft-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1998
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Main gable end front of tooled snecked stone with wings of snecked rockfaced stone and lower ground floor of giant rockfaced blocks; some ashlar dressings, painted, some rockfaced; Welsh slate roof with kneelers, decorative bargeboards and gable finials. 3-storey gable end frontage has at chapel level a large pointed-arched window altered to include a glazed tile panel at base with triple lancet vestibule window below; large boarded trefoil apex opening; lower ground floor round-arched entrance doorway is flanked by round-headed windows with deep sills; prominent quoins. From front flagged courtyard steps rise on each side to the two setback gabled staircase cross wings, each with shouldered doorway with roundel above set within an arch; paired lancets above. Wall fronting chapel forecourt is of rubble with rockfaced dressings, saddleback coping, stepped up to right and terminating in a tooled pyramidal capstone; central entrance has heavy rockfaced piers with similar capstones and decorative lamp arch with double iron gates.
Interior has deep gallery on 3 sides with decorative cast iron panels, moulded wooden rail and deep base with tiers of moulding, supported by 6 twisted cast-iron columns; scored render to walls and boarded dado. At end is the reredos arch of moulded plaster, a round arch with pilasters set within a rectangular frame, with a separate curved wooden gallery in front bearing the organ console with pipes at each side. Below is the pulpit with baptistry enclosure bounded by a wooden rail with decorative cast-iron railings. Flat boarded ceiling in panels with hexagonal ventilators. Some renewed glazing but most retained with Art Nouveau style motifs. Vestibule enclosure with descending steps to entrance on lower ground floor. Former vestry and Sunday School with double doors to side, also used in marriage service. To rear back stairs, organ passage and pastor's vestry.
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