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
26848
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/08/2002
Date of Amendment
06/08/2002
Name of Property
Schoolroom at Capel Moriah
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Llwchwr
Town
Swansea
Locality
Llwchwr
Easting
257692
Northing
198116
Street Side
N
Location
Situated on the N side of Glebe Road just W of Capel Moriah.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Calvinistic Methodist chapel of 1842 replacing the thatched 'Capel y To Gwellt' of 1828. The interior gallery was added in 1849 and the boarded ceiling and surviving sash windows could be later still. The original attached chapel house was demolished to make room for the new chapel. The old chapel was converted to a schoolroom in 1903 at a cost of £500. It was in the schoolroom that Evan Roberts addressed the youth meeting on 31 October 1904 that marks a beginning of the Welsh Revival of 1904-5, subsequent meetings in the following week were held in the new chapel. The revival spread to other parts of the world and the chapel and schoolroom are now increasingly visited by people from many countries.
Exterior
Schoolroom, built as Calvinistic Methodist chapel, unpainted render with slate half-hipped roof and red terracotta ridge tiles. Lateral facade with rusticated quoins, 4 arched windows, 2 arched doors and centre plaque. Two long centre windows with moulded arched hoods and keystones, 2 narrower outer gallery windows with similar hoods carried down further each side, and 2 6-panel arched doors in pilastered surrounds with similar moulded arches and keystones. C20 glazing, doors may be original mid C19. Right end wall has arched window above, square-headed window below. Left end window is blocked, ground floor small addition.
Interior
Plastered walls, flat painted boarded ceiling with simple ribbing and centre roundel. Five-sided painted timber gallery on 4 fluted iron columns. Gallery front is in long panels with turned column shafts between, the capitals under rounded projections in the moulded top rail, the bases above the deep lower cornice and frieze. The sides have 2 long panels, the canted angles one long panel each, and the centre 3 panels, 2 short ones each side of a centre roundel, originally for a clock. Original pews and pulpit removed. Plain boarded dado, and small plaster arched pulpit back between front windows, with undercut plasterwork to arch. Two glazed enclosed small lobbies. Rear has 2 arched windows above, in gallery, with marginal glazing bars. Door to vestry and window with marginal bars below. Sloping plastered underside to gallery. Plain panel-backed raked pews in gallery.
Reason for designation
Included primarily for historical association with Evan Roberts and the national religious revival in 1904-5.
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