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.
Date of Designation
24/11/1994
Date of Amendment
24/11/1994
Name of Property
Ramoth Baptist Church
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Location
Situated on the W side of the road through Abercych, some 100m from the junction with the B 4332.
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
History
1868 Baptist Chapel replacing one of 1826.
Exterior
1868 Baptist Chapel in rubble stone with cut Cilgerran stone dressings and slate roof. Paired brackets to eaves. Gable front with two long arched side windows, centre tall narrow arched recess over pair of arched small windows and arched door. Small paned windows with marginal glazing bars. Double 6-panel doors and fanlight with concentric bars. Plaque 'Ramoth' Addoldy y Bedyddwyr Adeiladwyd 1826, Ailadeiladwyd 1868'. Two long arched windows each side, two to rear.
Interior
Three-sided gallery with long horizontal panels, on cast-iron fluted columns. Curved gallery corners. Box pews, and pulpit with curved front, steps up each side with carved finials to newel-posts.
Reason for designation
Included as unaltered example of a mid-Victorian country chapel, still with the small-paned windows and box-pews of the earlier chapels.
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