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
12621
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/08/1981
Date of Amendment
28/07/1992
Name of Property
Detached School room from Seion Capel y Bedydddwyr/Seion Baptist Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
St. David's and the Cathedral Close
Town
Locality
Easting
175449
Northing
225411
Street Side
Location
Situated some 40m N of Gospel Lane junction, the chapel set well back in grassed forecourt; the schoolroom by road at SE angle of forecourt.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Dated 1843 and 1897. Alterations to the chapel are recorded also in 1873, T Evans of Solva, builder.
Exterior
Baptist Chapel in rubble stone with slate roof and ca1897 unpainted roughcast front with raised cement dressings. Arch-headed windows to two-storey front with centre arch-headed door in moulded architrave with keystone. Paired, panelled doors and traceried fanlight. Windows are in channel rusticated frames with arched hoodmoulds, larger outer windows and two slightly shorter windows to centre first floor, set higher than outer windows, and a small traceried roundel above. Upper windows have timber tracery, two lights with plain circle above. Coped gable with block finial and rectangular plaque 'Seion Capel y Bedyddwyr 1843, 1897'. Angle pilasters with pedestal blocks above.
Rubble stone side elevations, probably of 1843 with single window each floor. Cut stone heads. Two end wall arch headed windows with cut stone voussoirs. Interior with wood boarded roof, gallery and pews.
Schoolroom: may be early C20 incorporating a building with external stair marked on 1908 O.S. 25 map. Rubble stone with slate roof and W end stack. Single storey with arch-headed door and two windows to forecourt elevation, rendered E gable end to road with two arched windows. Timber two-light tracery with circle above. Door on forecourt side has matching tracery to fanlight and ledged doors, windows to right have timber arched heads to paired fixed lights and top lights over, possibly altered. From school-room N runs a low rock-faced stone wall with centre gatepiers, end piers and iron spearhead railings. Matching centre gates.
Interior
Reason for designation
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