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
14733
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
25/07/1994  
Date of Amendment
25/07/1994  
Name of Property
Ebenezer Chapel  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey  
Community
Holyhead  
Town
 
Locality
Holyhead  
Easting
224928  
Northing
381211  
Street Side
W  
Location
Approximately 100m S of junction with Cytir Road. Behind low wall with stone posts, iron railings and gates.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Late C19 chapel.  

Exterior
Grey stone front with bathstone dressings, pebbledashed side and rear, slate roof. Pedimented ‘temple’ front with elaborate finial. Four Doric pilasters; central bay has large round arched window with paired lights, smaller single light windows to outer bays. Channelled bathstone stone ground floor with paired entrance doors, pediment over, square-headed windows to sides. Plaque from earlier chapel on site ‘Ebenezer 1850 MC’. Outer bays of front have scrolls flanking pediment over 3-arched arcade, tabernacle to ends; below this 2 windows, single window to ground floor in bathstone architrave; outer bay returns (which project as stair turrets) have 2 paired windows to each floor in bathstone surrounds. Four bays to sides, first floor round-headed windows, ground floor square-headed (sash glazing with marginal bars). Gable end to W has no openings. [To R of chapel, attached gabled school, rendered, slate roofs.]  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included for architectural qualities of main front.  

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