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
11575
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
Ebenezer Baptist Chapel Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
265652
Northing
193682
Street Side
Location
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Exterior
Dominant building in a narrow side street off High Street and close to the railway station.
Dated 1862, possibly designed by Rev Thomas Thomas. Formerly the Ebenezer Chapel of the Welsh Independents.
Fine 3 bay neo-classical facade with steep open pediment to gable (possibly influenced by C R Cockerell’s designs). Giant vermiculated arch supported by broken entablature on angle pilasters with egg-and-dart capitals; linking impost and cill-bands. Recessed centre with inscribed tablet over stepped triple light with architraves and tracery; balustraded apron over entablature to tetrastyle Doric portico in antis. Bipartite windows with detailing as before to side bays.
2 storey hall gable of 1894 adjoins to left, similar style with 3 lights over 4 lights with centre pilaster and doorway breaching cill band. Attached house with scrolled entrance to Mission Hall at rear (not of special interest).
Spacious rectangular interior to chapel with boarded and ribbed ceiling, rich acanthus foliage to twin roses, groined coving over street window. Excellent, continuous gallery swept down below Gothic organ-case at N end; classical pulpit in front, pilasters, modillion cornice, gold stencilling etc and sinuous balustraded handrails to platform with volute brackets to reading desk. Tapering cast-iron columns with acanthus leaves and egg-and-dart capitals under gallery. Good panelled box pews and Greek wall tablets.
References: Shown set back from street on "Swansea Local Board of Health Map" (1852).
A Jones: "Welsh Chapels" (National Museum 1984), p 58.
Inscribed tablet: "Ebenezer: Erected 1803 Enlarged 1826: Rebuilt 1862".
Interior
Reason for designation
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