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
14098
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/06/1980
Date of Amendment
31/07/1997
Name of Property
Trinity Methodist Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Adamsdown
Town
Locality
Easting
319525
Northing
177030
Street Side
S
Location
Between Four Elms Road and Piercefield Place.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built 1896-1897. By Ingall and Sons of Birmingham. Remodelled 1978 by Wyn Thomas & Partners (porch to Piercefield Place, horizontal internal subdivision).
Exterior
Elaborate chapel in mixed Early English and Decorated styles. Snecked Pennant stone with bathstone dressings, slate roofs. Gabled entrance front facing Four Elms Road has deep 2-storey arch with stiff leaf capitals enclosing rose window; below, entrance doorway with 3 orders of shafts with stiffleaf caps; 2-light window to each side. To L, polygonal bell turret with open-work spire, trefoil windows, gargoyles. To R, elaborate tower with bathstone steeple, polygonal bellstage, turrets with pinnacles, and stepped buttresses to 2-stage porch tower, doorway to Piercefield Place. Elevation to Piercefield Place has modern vestibule and to R transept with 5-light Geometrical window; to R of this, vestry (bathstone ashlar), pinnacled buttresses, trefoil parapet, window of 3 cusped lights. Polygonal apse behind vestry.
Interior
Subdivided horizontally in 1978 remodelling; double hammerbeam roof, well-lit apse with coupled colonettes and stiff-leaf capitals. Stained glass in apse by Swaine & Co; angels representing virtues in rose window.
Reason for designation
Listed as elaborate late C19 chapel with prominent spire on important site on approach to city centre. Group value with adjacent Elms Centre.
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