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
82872
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
18/06/2004  
Date of Amendment
18/06/2004  
Name of Property
Chapel at Llandovery College  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
Llandovery  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
276515  
Northing
234472  
Street Side
NE  
Location
Situated to SE of main college building, opposite entrance gate.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Chapel to Llandovery College, 1933 by W. Ellery Anderson of Cheltenham, originally of exposed stone, now clad in painted roughcast to match college buildings.  

Exterior
Chapel, painted roughcast with slate roofs behind parapets, and coped shouldered gables. Gothic style with lancet windows and patterned leaded glazing. String course below parapets, moulded parapet coping, E end cross finial and 2-step gabled buttresses between bays and at angles. Four-bay nave, small transepts and single bay chancel. W end has 3 stepped lancets over gabled porch with pointed arched entry. N side has 2 triple stepped lancets and 3 buttresses. Small N transept has diagonal 2-step buttresses, 5 tiny lancets set high on W and E sides. Chancel N has 3 close-set lancets and pointed door under cambered head. Nave S side has blank first bay and 3 similar 3-light windows. S transept projects less than N transept and has a small bellcote on E shoulder with circular chimney attached. Stepped gabled diagonal buttresses and S end stepped 3-light window. Chancel S has lancets as on N, diagonal angle buttresses and stepped 5-light E window.  

Interior
Interior not inspected. Has large abstract E window of 1991 by Amber Hescott and David Pearl of Swansea.  

Reason for designation
Included as an earlier C20 simplified Gothic building, of group value with the original college building.  

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