Beulah Baptist Church and attached wing and gateway is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 April 1963. Church.

Beulah Baptist Church and attached wing and gateway

WRENN ID
long-groin-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Caerphilly
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 April 1963
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Beulah Baptist Church is a chapel built in a simple classical style, featuring a rendered exterior with a roof made of Welsh slate and artificial slate. The main facade, which faces the cemetery, includes a gallery level with four round-headed windows that have a continuous hoodmould band, shallow keystone, and imposts, flanked by rusticated end pilasters. In the center, there is a datestone that is now illegible. Above the windows, a scalloped lead flashing course runs below a plain parapet that rises in the center to form a pediment-gable topped with a cruciform finial. The ground floor has three similar windows and taller doorways at each end, which also feature a hoodmould band with vermiculated detailing over the doorways. The rear of the chapel, facing the lane, has scored render and two altered round-headed windows.

Attached to one side of the chapel is a two-storey gabled Sunday School wing constructed of stone, brick, and render, with windows that have bracketed sills. The gable end features a full-height round arch with pilasters and a blind oculus above, paired round-arched windows below with terracotta keystones, and a horizontal brick band that extends from a continuous hoodmould. The round arches at the basement storey are partially blocked. The side elevation includes two wide segmental basement arches with grilles and twinned windows with bracketed sills, as well as an arched entrance next to the chapel that has a wrought iron gate and a steep flight of stairs leading to the first floor.

At the front of the chapel, there is a cemetery wall made of stone, with an entrance flanked by two heavy rock-faced piers topped with pyramidal capstones. The entrance features double iron gates with spear railings and a lamp arch. There is also a short return in the churchyard, likely the remnants of the original boundary wall, which was mostly removed when the cemetery was extended.

Inside, the chapel has a three-sided raked gallery with a painted boarded front in panels, supported by slender cast iron piers with foliage capitals. The ceiling is boarded and segmental arched, and there is a boarded dado. The set fawr includes a wide platform with a central pulpit and a double staircase. To the right, there is a plaque dedicated to Thomas George of Waun Y Cof, who lived from 1824 to 1911 and was the agent of the Llanover Estate.

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