Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11332
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/09/1984
Date of Amendment
03/03/1998
Name of Property
Former Bethlehem Baptist Church aka Ty Capel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Ewenny
Town
Ewenny
Locality
Corntown
Easting
291668
Northing
177383
Street Side
N
Location
On the main thoroughfare through Corntown on W side of village.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Chapel built 1841, Sunday School extension 1925. Pool in Corntown village at The Nant formerly used for mass baptisms. Converted to house 1980s with part of Sunday School a garage.
Exterior
Simple rectangular building with side wall facade extended to right. Of painted and rendered stone, deeply horizontally channelled to front with raised band at corners, roughcast to sides; shallow pitched Welsh slate roof with terracotta ridge, low end stack left. Four round headed windows: long centre pair, short to sides over gallery, all multipane sashes with intersecting tracery with raised margins. Doorways at each side with raised margins are round headed with replaced doors incorporating fanlights. Sunday school extension has replaced rectangular windows and doors, retains raised surrounds. Bordered to front by rubble wall with ashlar saddle back coping, original end piers with pyramidal caps, iron railings with fleur de lys finials to stanchions and scrolls and spears to gates.
Interior
Converted to residential use.
Reason for designation
Included notwithstanding alteration since first listed for its street frontage which retains much of its original character.
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