Zion Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 January 1981. Chapel.
Zion Baptist Chapel
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1981
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Zion Baptist Chapel is a Baptist church and schoolroom built with painted stucco and features two parallel hipped slate roofs. The building has paired brackets supporting flat eaves and a continuous front that includes four arched windows and two arched doors. The chapel, located on the left, has a broader front with larger openings, long windows adorned with Gothic intersecting glazing bars in the heads and 24 panes below. It also has central panelled double doors with matching glazing bars leading to an arched fanlight. The schoolroom has two windows and a center door designed with similar details but is narrower. Stone sills are present throughout. The chapel's side wall features three arched windows with later 19th century or early 20th century similar glazing, which includes a central mullion. This wall was previously slate hung. The schoolroom's side wall has four 12-pane sash windows on each floor.
Inside, the chapel has been altered, with a red brick rear wall that includes a large plastered arched recess behind a late 20th century brick pulpit, and a baptistery located under a stepped floor. The ceiling is flat and from the 20th century. However, the original gallery remains, supported by four thin cast-iron columns with a painted panelled front. There are no pews in the body of the church. Monuments on the wall commemorate several individuals, including two ministers, Rev John Davies (died 1816) and Rev James Michael (died 1858), Anne Jenkins (died 1831) and her sister Mary, John Butler (died 1808), and John Jenkins (died 1809) along with his wife Ann (died 1827). There is also a memorial for those who died in the First World War. The gallery retains painted-grained raked high-back benches with boarded backs, and the stairs to the gallery have been moved from the right side to the left. The schoolroom is arranged over two floors, with stairs located in the right corner and a boarded ceiling upstairs.
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