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
23076
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/03/2000
Date of Amendment
29/03/2000
Name of Property
Tabernacle Chapel Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Coedffranc
Town
Locality
Skewen
Easting
272732
Northing
197318
Street Side
W
Location
Situated directly opposite Tabernacle Chapel.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Probably built c1897 and contemporary with the rebuilding of the chapel.
Exterior
A single-storey hall with a snecked rock-faced stone front facing the street, roughcast side and rear walls, and slate roof. The front has 4 windows with round heads, lighter stone dressings with keystones, and Y-tracery. A yellow-brick lean-to at the R end has blue-brick dressings. A boarded door under a round overlight is in its L side, with 3 round-headed windows facing the street. The L gable end of the hall has 2 round-headed windows with Y-tracery. The R gable end has 2 tiers of 2 round-headed windows with Y-tracery, the upper windows lighting the gallery. To the rear are 2 round-headed windows and, at the R end, a lower gabled wing with end ridge stack and 2 plain windows in the gable end.
Interior
A boarded and ribbed ceiling forms 2 large central panels with ceiling roses. A stage has a panelled proscenium arch. The gallery at the opposite end, above the entrance, has a single cast iron column with foliage capital, and an open work cast iron gallery front of bellied cross section. Beneath the gallery is a movable panelled screen.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Tabernacle Chapel.
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