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
6485
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/05/1988
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Bethesda Baptist Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Narberth
Town
Locality
Easting
210861
Northing
214668
Street Side
Location
Located behind the street line, reached via narrow cul-de-sac mid-way along the High Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Erected in 1889 at a cost of £2,100; in the style of George Morgan of Carmarthen on the site of an earlier chapel. The Rev Benjamin Thomas (Myfyr Emlyn) being the first minister and whose monument is in the burial ground at rear.
Exterior
Romanesque, gabled, 2 storey and basement, 3 bay snecked masonry front; ashlar dressings. Steeply pitched slate roof with gable parapet to front with finial. Advanced centre bay. Stepped tripartite window to apex, round arches, colonnettes, stopped hoodmoulds; louvres. Stone tablet below reads; BETHESDA BAPTIST CHAPEL, BUILT 1837 REBUILT 1889, PASTOR B THOMAS. 10 light wheel window, cusped foils, dogtooth ornament. 2 light round arched windows to outer bays, colonette, stopped hoodmould. Similar to groundfloor.
Stone steps with iron handrails bridge basement areas to imposing Romanesque doorway. Two order round arch, fleuron and dogtooth mouldings; nookshafts with foliate capitals. Double doors, fillets, iron straps. Cast iron lamp standards flank staircase, barley twist shafts, moulded bases, modern lamps, Victorian sashes to basement windows, sidelights to central door under steps.
Stick brick voussoirs and architraves.
4 window side elevations, rendered to S, stock brick dressings; pointed arches to 1st floor, cambered arches to ground floor, 2 light window. Voussoirs to basement with Victorian sashes.
Rear gable end slate hung. 2 stock brick stacks flank apex. Rendered lean-to projection with lower, advanced hipped wings. 5 light traceried window to top, doorway at base. Victorian sashes to flanks and top storey of wings.
Interior
Reason for designation
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