Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
24022
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/09/2000
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Capel Saron including vestry, forecourt railings and gates
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llanbadarn Fawr
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Llanbadarn Fawr
Easting
259907
Northing
280787
Street Side
E
Location
Situated in the centre of Llanbadarn Fawr, on the E side of the A4120 some 150m S of its junction with the A44.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Calvinistic Methodist chapel of 1842-3, remodelled in 1879. The broad facade suggests a long-wall front altered to gable front.
Exterior
Chapel, unpainted render with some stucco dressings, slate roof and bracketed verges to broad gable front. Two centre windows and 2 outer doors, all arched, and big lunette plaque in gable, with 'Methodistiaid Calfinaidd 1843 Saron' in later C19 lettering. Windows are large, 20-pane, with intersecting glazing bars in heads and door fanlights match. All have moulded stucco arched hoods, those to windows linked to an impost band, those to doors on small console brackets. Plain flush doors.
Ground falls away to rear and there is a basement vestry, rubble stone N side wall has 3 later C19 yellow brick arched windows, basement door to right, added outbuilding left. Rendered plain rear wall with 2 arched windows and louvred gable opening. Rendered S side wall has 3 similar arched windows, basement sash window to left.
A late C19 vestry comes forward to right, with 2-window range in end gable to street and red brick end stack. Attached forecourt walls, low roughcast walls with slate coping and low iron railings. Two plain gatepiers and double iron gates. Cast iron spearhead rails and urn capped stanchions. Gates have matching dog-bars.
Interior
Plain large interior with numbered pitch pine pews in 3 blocks slightly raked to rear. Shaped bench ends, front pew with 2 ornate scrolled rails dividing. Set fawr between entrance lobbies has turned balustrades over panelling, the balustrades terminated at heavy turned newels with ball finials. Curved angles. Platform has similar newels to steps up each side and front each side of pulpit. This has panel front between piers with heavy brackets supporting bookrest, upper horizontal panel has 3 roundels. All panels have chamfered and stopped surrounds. Plain ceiling with cornice and 3 small roses
Vestry beneath chapel to rear with plain iron pillars supporting chapel floor.
Reason for designation
Included mainly for the architectural interest of the chapel front of the 1840s with small-paned glazing.
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