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
11554
Building Number
 
Grade
II*  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/03/1987  
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987  
Name of Property
Bethesda Baptist Church  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Swansea  
Community
Castle  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
265783  
Northing
193897  
Street Side
 
Location
Set below road level in a railed burial ground on the corner with Prince of Wales Road.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Rebuilt c1870. Architect not known.  

Exterior
Neo-classical chapel with elaborate Renaissance porch of segmental plan. 3-bay coursed ashlar (decayed) S front, modern pantile roof, cemented and painted side elevations. Pedimented frontispiece with dentil cornice, flanked balustraded parapets and openwork domed turrets with finials to corners. Entablature supported by paired pilasters on tall panelled pedestals with interrupted string-course. Triple openings to pediment, three round-headed lights below inscribed frieze, moulded architraves, keyblocks and linked impost bands, panelled fields with roundels over windows. Longer lights to outer bays. Segmental-plan porch with 3 canted and richly carved doorpieces to round-arched openings, segmental pediments with foliage finials and dove tympana, foliage spandrels, Corinthian pilasters. Paired round-arched doors under porch. W elevation with dentil cornice and entablature continuing from entrance front, 4 pilastered bays with windows on two levels (blank N end with removal of chapel hall). 2-storey, 7-window E elevation without pilasters but with linked import bands. Pedimented N front with chimney at apex and domed turrets linked by solid parapets.  

Interior
Said to have an "excellent interior". Christman Evans, the great preacher, who died in 1838, was buried near the original chapel.  

Reason for designation
 

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