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
15893
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1995
Date of Amendment
30/03/1995
Name of Property
Porthkerry Methodist Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Barry
Town
Locality
Barry
Easting
310529
Northing
167448
Street Side
N
Location
On E corner of Porthkerry Road and Romilly Road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
1897. By JP Jones, Richards, and Budgen, architects, of Cardiff.
Exterior
Brown stone with bathstone dressings, slate roofs. Main entrance front in late Perpendicular style. Central bay defined by two large polygonal buttresses which run up as spirelets with cusped arcading and floral band. Floral finial to gable apex, large 7-light window with Perpendicular tracery. Entrance doorway has cusped 4-centred arch with ogee-headed panelling over, and finial. To each side of doorway, 2-light window with foiled reticulated tracery, ogee arch over. Hipped roofs to outer bays which have diagonal buttresses, band of floral relief at eaves; 2-light Perpendicular window to first floor, and entrance doorway with 4-centred arch, panelling with cusped arcading over. Sides have 4 bays with tall 2-light Perpendicular windows, and gabled transepts with diagonal buttresses and 4-light Perpendicular windows. Rear with projecting organ chamber.
Interior
Spacious but simple interior with early C16 style details. Three-centred arch with finial to organ chamber; wooden panelled steps; similar (smaller) arches to vestries each side of organ; polygonal colonettes with floral capitals to side bays. Arch-braced roof (thin timbers), ceiled at collar level and boarded. Shallow gallery to front.
Reason for designation
Included as fine example of late C19 Gothic chapel, especially for entrance front.
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