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
10511
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/04/1992
Date of Amendment
14/04/1992
Name of Property
ForeCourt Railings & Gatepiers at Mount Zion Baptist Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Cardigan
Town
Locality
Easting
217860
Northing
246142
Street Side
Location
Situated set back in railed enclosure.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built by W Woodward of Cardigan brickworks, of local brick, for £1,200. 1878-80 English Baptist chapel by George Morgan of Carmarthen.
Exterior
Red brick with moulded and pressed brick decorative details and some Bath stone dressings, since painted. Banded slate roofs. Four-window chapel with end facade in simplified Romanesque style, the facade made tripartite with narrow projecting centrepiece and flanks gabled to sides. Coped gables and iron finials. Crested ridge tiles.
Centrepiece has big arched window with stilted arched head over paired doors in projecting gabled Bath stone doorcase. Bands of moulded or pressed bricks below sill and at impost level of main window. Pierced roundel in coped gable. Doorcase has 3 piers with shouldered caps, the centre pier cut back for attached column shaft, carved vine-leaf lunette in tympanum with arch voussoirs decorated with fleur-de-lys. Window over is painted ashlar with attached shaft between two arched lights, carved roundel in arch head with fleur-de-lys voussoirs. Ashlar plinth and band of black brick above continued around chapel.
Each side of centre, long arched windows with similar voussoirs and moulded brick impost bands. Decorative brickwork at eaves. Side-facing gables have stepped corbelling. Sides have 4 similar long arched windows, between wall piers and under decorative brick eaves.
Forecourt has low brick wall with slate coping and Gothic cast-iron railings. Blue lias stone gatepiers with cross-gabled caps.
Interior
End wall gallery and panelled roof.
Reason for designation
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