Former Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 February 1996. Gate lodge.

Former Baptist Chapel

WRENN ID
young-balcony-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 February 1996
Type
Gate lodge
Source
Cadw listing

Description

The chapel is built from local conglomerate rubble with dressed stone quoins and voussoirs (painted); half-hipped slate substitute roof. The north vestry is red brick with the roof chiefly in slate. The south (entrance) elevation has a central round headed doorway with boarded doors with planted ribs. Above this is a circular window with iron glazing and with a cambered head window to each side with metal glazing. The walling was raised in the second build (see History) to enable the inclusion of the side windows for the gallery and to give sufficient headroom. The east elevation has a central blocked round headed doorway, and, at the upper level, two round headed windows with wooden Y-tracery forming Gothic heads. The rear gable has two windows on the main body of the chapel with metal glazing above a red brick lean-to vestry with a tall chimney stack. The other long wall of the chapel is mostly blind but has a small metal framed window. The small graveyard is surrounded by a rubble wall and has a number of gravestones, the earliest dating from the 1820s.

The interior was not available for inspection at resurvey but it seems unlikely to have changed since listing. The description is taken from the listing description of 1996. The roof is ceiled with modern fibrous boarding. Simple wooden pulpit and set fawr enclosure to north end, wooden dado panelling (partially removed). The west wall has a shallow chimney breast (former external stack removed). The floor has wooden boarding (partially removed) over stone flags with the immersion font approximately 2.2m by 1.5m towards the south west corner, stone steps down. In the first build the set fawr would have been on the west wall opposite the door. The rearrangement of the chapel in the later C19 was to enable the building of a gallery over the new entrance.

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