Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11302
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/09/1986
Date of Amendment
29/09/1986
Name of Property
Hermon Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Bridgend
Town
Bridgend
Locality
Easting
290683
Northing
179513
Street Side
Location
Set back from the road near the junction with Merthyr Mawr Road; former chapel houses forward to the street to left and right.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Dated 1862 (permission granted in June to build a new chapel, vestry and 2 houses) by Robert Roberts at a cost of £2,245.
Exterior
Italian Renaissance open-pedimented stucco 3-bay front with channelled base and plinth voussoired ‘glorification arch’ to recessed centre. Wide cornice, plain entablature, ionic pilasters on cill band flanking side bays with tall round headed lights; tripartite window to centre with bracketed cill below date plaque (reading Hermon AD 1862) with classical canopy and over raised moulded arched entrance with impost bands; boarded doors. Keystones to all arches.
Broad architraves to tall arched windows on cement render left side, vestry adjoins at rear and reached by side lane.
Contemporary interior with panel-fronted gallery supported on cast-iron columns with foliage capitals. Painted wooden ceiling, trefoil decoration to organ case behind big seat; slightly ramped pews.
Former lower Chapel houses forward to left and right are not of special interest.
Interior
Reason for designation
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