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
18265
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/02/1997
Date of Amendment
24/02/1997
Name of Property
Bethel Baptist Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Llangybi
Town
Lampeter
Locality
Silian
Easting
257772
Northing
250834
Street Side
Location
Situated on N side of lane to Silian some 400m W of Junction with A485 at Glendenys.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Baptist Chapel built in 1831 and restored in 1955. The cause was founded in 1654, and a chapel built in 1735. Present chapel was built by John Evans of Tanygraig, (d 1843), who is buried in the iron railed enclosure to the rear of the chapel.
Exterior
Unpainted roughcast with unpainted stucco dressings, all of 1955, and slate roof with metal ventilator. Small lateral facade with two cambered-headed 12-pane sashes in stucco surrounds with keyblocks. Date plaque between. Outer cambered headed doors with stucco surrounds and keyblocks. Pebble dash inserts each side of keyblocks. Double 2-panel doors. Channelled angle piers. End walls have small first floor 9-pane sash. Rear has C20 red brick added lean-to, two-storey.
Interior
Probably mid C19, possibly of 1831. Three-sided ceiling, sloping to back and front. Three-sided gallery on 3 reeded wooden marbled columns. Gallery front is curved at angles and has deep marbled cornice beneath row of vertical panels, and one round clock-panel to centre. Painted graining. Painted grained box pews in three blocks on rear wall, and one small block to right of pulpit. Plain great seat with canted ends. Pulpit with steps up each side and curved angles with blind balustrading. Curving top rail. Gallery stairs at rear corners, lobbies in front corners.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved rural chapel retaining an exceptionally well-preserved attractive interior with painted grained and painted marbled finishes.
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