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
15382
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/01/1995
Date of Amendment
25/01/1995
Name of Property
Blaenfos Baptist Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Boncath
Town
Locality
Blaenfos
Easting
218957
Northing
237100
Street Side
Location
Situated in centre of Blaenffos, between A 478 and lane to Crosswell.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
1856 Baptist chapel, replacing chapels of 1765 and 1807. Similar in style to Ty Rhos Independent Chapel, Cilgerran, 1859.
Exterior
1856 Baptist Chapel, unpainted roughcast with stucco details. Two-storey gable front with triangular recess in gable marked `Capel y Bedyddwyr Blaenffos', two first floor arched windows with small-paned glazing and two ground floor C20 windows imitating 16-pane sashes. Raised plinth and double doors in raised surround with cambered head, keystone and some fluting. Traceried overlight. Above door is plaque `Adeiladwyd y ty cyntaf yn y flwyddyn 1765, yn ail yn 1807 a'r Addoldy hwn yn 1856'. Two-storey, two window sides with 16-pane sashes below and arched sashes with radiating bar heads above, two long arched rear windows with plastic glazing.
Interior
Flat ceiling with possibly later C19 boarding, coved border. Three-sided gallery on 3x3 marbled wood columns with high bases. Painted grained gallery front with cornice broken forward over columns and panelling divided by piers. Grained square pews, side ones with doors. Rear vestibule with coloured-glass traceried centre window and two 5-panel doors. Pulpit with thick ball-finial newels and steps up to square pulpit with turned angle shafts and integral panelled seat. Early C20 organ behind by G. Osmond of Taunton.
Reason for designation
Included for interior, still in the late Georgian tradition.
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