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
13933
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/06/1977
Date of Amendment
28/04/2000
Name of Property
Lisvane Baptist Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Lisvane
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Craig Llysfaen
Easting
319563
Northing
184125
Street Side
E
Location
On the lower S facing slope of Caerphilly mountain, NE of Lisvane and surrounded by a walled graveyard.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Cause originated 1782, founded by Harri Rees of Ty Mawr, deacon and preacher at Bethesda Bassaleg. Site bought 1789 at Dderwen Deg (Fair Oak), the two existing cottages being converted into a chapel. Second chapel built 1818 at cost of £300 on same site; this had no gallery but an attached stable. At time of Revival in 1841 chapel had a membership of 52 adults. 3rd chapel - the present building - built 1858 at cost of £500. Further Revival 1904 led to renovations by J E Turner of Ty Gwyn at cost of £250. Photograph of 1929 shows sash windows and chimney. Titus Llewellyn, surveyor of the Tredegar Estate, was a leading member of the Baptist Chapel and wrote music for it and a history of it in 1929 and is buried in cemetery. Former list description includes reference to a 'memory sketch' of the previous chapel on display.
Exterior
Rectangular plan oriented roughly NW/SE; stone walls with cement render and roughcast, painted. Slate gabled roof has wide boarded eaves and end gables. Main entrance elevation has two tall round-headed windows with replaced glazing flanking a round-headed doorway with replaced fanlight and renewed panelled double doors under a moulded arch with keystone; plaque above. Similar long windows to other gable end facing road. At gallery level the windows are square- headed with renewed glazing to former casements. Lean-tos with windows to each side: that to S, the vestry, with separate entrance. The graveyard contains some table tombs.
Interior
3-sided gallery with plain panelled front supported by 5 plain cast-iron columns. Between the long windows is a blind semi-circular arched moulded reredos with fluted and reeded archivolt and keystone; below is the pulpit facing entrance with double staircase. Plaster ceiling with moulded rose and cornice. Pews with moulded ends. Enclosed entrance lobby, the stairs unusally rise from the body of the chapel at each side. Plain gallery benches; panelled dado, scored render, 4-panelled doors.
Reason for designation
Listed for its architectural interest as a plain country chapel from the mid C19 on an earlier site; group value with the important baptistry.
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