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
11364
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/05/1990
Date of Amendment
29/01/1998
Name of Property
Former Horeb Welsh Presbyterian Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Laleston
Town
Locality
Laleston
Easting
287760
Northing
179822
Street Side
N
Location
On the E edge of the village, side onto the main thoroughfare.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built 1831. Adjoining schoolroom and house added later. Complex now used as a small independent school and interior of chapel thus converted.
Exterior
A small rectangular building of coursed dressed stone with mostly tooled dressings, rendered to side and rear; Welsh slate roof with boarded eaves, gable finial. Gable end front has large kneelers joined by a string course above which is central moulded plaque with eroded inscription. Two tall pointed arched windows with small-pane fixed glazing, intersecting tracery, chamfered surrounds and sills; on either side pointed-arched doorways with similar tracery in overlight and boarded doors; step left with nosing; low clasping buttress with offset to left, right side adjoins schoolroom; battered plinth. Side elevations have similar single windows with moulded render surround; two to rear. Chapel faces onto a yard of stone flags and together with later schoolroom and house complex is bordered by a low wall of rockfaced stone, piers with saddleback copings and tooled pyramidal caps, gates and iron railings with decorative stanchions.
Interior
Interior now used as schoolroom. Raked gallery against front wall with bowed ironwork front, bracketed out to base, supported by single cast-iron Corinthian pier, curving out slightly against side walls. Moulded ceiling cornice. Curved wooden staircase to gallery.
Reason for designation
Listed as an example of a well preserved early C19 chapel; group value with The Oystercatcher Public House and Village Farm House.
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