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
10179
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/11/1987
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987
Name of Property
English Baptist Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Aberystwyth
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Easting
258294
Northing
281788
Street Side
Location
At the top of the street near the Public Library, side elevation to Crynfryn Row. Set back behind iron railings with gate piers.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Opened 1870; cost, £2,300.
Exterior
Italianate simple classical 2-storey and basement, 3-bay gable ended front; snecked rubble with rendered dressings. Finials to gable (missing to apex) carried on banded end pilaster strips; band course to gable with vacant datestone, plinth; slate roof. Tall, stilted arched plate tracery 3-light window to centre with rose pattern oculus. Outer bay windows recessed under gabled hoods with voussoirs; ground and gallery storey windows with marginal glazing bars contained within the one giant arch with bracket cill; punched roundels to dividing bands. Raised central cambered arched entrance carried on cylindrical columns with foliage capitals; shouldered recess to double boarded doors; gate piers at stair base. Sash windows to basement. 5-bay scribed cement render side elevations; arched headed sash windows with glazing bars, hoodmoulds as impost bands.
Interior
Rectangular classical 5-bay interior with renewed coved ribbed ceiling with corbelled cornice, ventilation panels to coves and foliage rose to each bay. Raked gallery against front wall with foliage panelled front; carried on cast-iron fluted columns with foliage capitals. Small great seat in front of tripartite panelled end wall.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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