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
13238
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/02/1981
Date of Amendment
16/09/1999
Name of Property
United Free Church (Ramoth Chapel)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Cowbridge with Llanblethian
Town
Locality
Cowbridge
Easting
299152
Northing
174850
Street Side
Location
To rear of No 21 Westgate, in own precinct.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Originally Ramoth Baptist Chapel. Dated 1828 externally.
Exterior
Early C19 chapel with square plan. Stucco. Steeply-pitched hipped slate roof. Front elevation with quoins; central semi-circular doorway in arcading with double-leaf doors (restored), each of three moulded and fielded panels. Round-headed sash window above and a tall round-headed sash window to each side. Datestone above central window "Ramoth 1828". Side elevations of 2 windows; rear elevation of 2 windows. Modern single-storey extensions to N and W. NW and SE stone rubble walls to chapel yard lined on inner sides by C19 headstones, some dating from early to mid C19, such as the shaped headstone to Anne, wife of Evan Llewelyn of Aberthin, who died August 22 1834.
Interior
Remarkably well-preserved interior of early C19 character. Panelled lobby with gallery stairs to each side, panelled doors to chapel. Three-sided gallery on classical iron columns has wooden panelled frontal; early C19 gallery benches; straight and turned balusters to stairs. Body of chapel retains full set of early-to-mid C19 box pews. Pulpit with flanking stairs has turned and straingt balusters. Panelled doors to W hall. Immersion font below floor to front of pulpit.
Original roof structure said to remain above modern suspended ceiling.
Reason for designation
Remarkably well-preserved early C19 chapel.
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