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
12196
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/07/1974
Date of Amendment
30/11/2005
Name of Property
Ebenezer Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Haverfordwest
Town
Haverfordwest
Locality
Easting
195284
Northing
215895
Street Side
SW
Location
Situated raised above Perrot Road with chapel entry from Ebenezer Row.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Calvinistic Methodist chapel dated 1817 and 1844, set back behind two-storey schoolroom building of 1886. The present chapel probably dates from 1844. The interior was renovated in 1889 following the construction of the large new front building of 1885-6 on Perrot Road, all by D.E. Thomas of Haverfordwest. The Calvinistic Methodists had been associated with Tabernacle until 1790 when the congregation split and Tabernacle became Independent. Nathaniel Rowland continued the cause in premises in Bridge Street until 1807 when he was ejected. The new chapel was built in 1817 and enlarged in 1844. It was not until the schoolrooms were added that it acquired a formal front with two schoolrooms one over the other giving a tall Italianate facade. The works of 1885-9 cost £1600. The buildings were restored in 1967-9.
Exterior
Chapel set back behind two-storey schoolroom of 1886. The schoolroom has painted stucco front with slate hipped roof behind parapet. Two storeys, four bays, the inner ones closer spaced. Italianate classical style with rusticated ground floor, and upper floor with pilasters, entablature, dentil cornice and pediment set against panelled parapet. Ground floor has broad raised outer piers and 4 cambered-headed windows with radiating voussoirs. Moulded cornice broken forward over outer piers. First floor has Doric pilasters on pedestals, paired to outer angles and single flanking the two centre bays. Four long arched windows with moulded arches, pilaster jambs and panels below. The pilaster caps are continued as impost band behind the paired pilasters. Deep frieze broken forward over centre two bays and over outer paired pilasters, the centre inscribed 'Ebenezer', cornice with flat mutules, pediment over centre with oval sunk panel, and parapet with square sunk panel over outer pilasters, and long panel with roundel. Moulded coping. Windows are long casement pairs with plain fanlights, and on ground floor, casement pairs with segmental headed top lights. Similar detail to two-bay returns.
The original chapel behind is plain rendered with slate hipped roof and arched windows.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest for prominent stucco Italianate frontage to Perrot Road.
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