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
81962
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/10/2003
Date of Amendment
22/10/2003
Name of Property
Walls, railings and gates at Capel Salem (Capel y Cwm)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Bonymaen
Town
Swansea
Locality
Bonymaen
Easting
267764
Northing
195756
Street Side
S
Location
Situated approximately 120m E of the junction of Cwm Chapel Road and the B5444.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Entrance gates, walls and railings to Capel Salem, Calvinistic Methodist chapel of 1903-5, by W W Williams of Swansea, who died during the construction, the work being completed by W David of Swansea. Presumably of the same date as the chapel.
Exterior
Chapel entrance gates, walls and railings. Two large gatepiers in rock-faced rubble stone with plinths and ashlar pyramidal Gothic caps with gablet on each face. Ornate double iron gates with scrollwork decoration. To each side is coursed sandstone retaining wall with ashlar chamfered coping carrying low railings to similar pattern to gates.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of ironwork of c1900 and for group value with the chapel.
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