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
20504
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/09/1998
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Plasnewydd Presbyterian Church and attached Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Roath
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Plasnewydd
Easting
318967
Northing
177590
Street Side
W
Location
On the corner of Plasnewydd Square and Keppoch Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The school bears the date 28 July 1886, and is by J. H. Phillips, architect; the contractor was D Thomas. The chapel dates from 1901, the earliest work of W. Beddoe Rees (in collaboration with J. H. James).
Exterior
Gothic chapel with attached hall to rear. Pennant stone in low courses, bathstone dressings and banding; slate roofs. The chapel faces Plasnewydd Square. Gabled front of 3 bays with shallow buttresses; corbelled bathstone pinnacle to centre; pair of 2-light Gothic windows with vesicas to heads; hoodmoulds with floral stops. Broad Gothic doorway with hollow chamfer with floral panels; hoodmould with finial; boarded doors. Trefoil windows to side bays.
Front flanked by stair projections with single window to upper level, and paired Gothic windows to ground floors. Left projection has hipped roof, but R projection has develops into polygonal bell turret; upper stage and flared spirelet in bathstone ashlar with lucarnes to spirelet, band of quatrefoil panelling with gargoyles to angles; lancets.
Elevation to Keppoch Street has 4 bays articulated by shallow buttresses, and ashlar band between floors. At upper level, 2-light windows with Gothic heads; below, 2-light windows with cusped heads. South elevation has simpler windows treatment, no banding, red brick buttresses and vestry.
To rear of chapel, facing Keppoch Street is hall. Pennant Stone and bathstone dressings; slate roof. Gabled front with group of 3 lancets (small oculus above) and flanking shallow buttresses. To sides, roof sweeps down over aisles, each with lancet window and Gothic doorway with boarded door.
Interior
Said to have gallery on 3 sides with classical detailing supported on iron columns with classical capitals; bowed frontal with pierced metal patterning. Tall Composite columns support wooden boarded ceiling, segmental in section over body of chapel, and flat over galleries. Concave timber frontal to organ gallery; bowed pews.
Reason for designation
Listed as a fine well-detailed chapel by a prominent architect on an important site on the corner of Plasnewydd Square.
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