Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11678
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
Mount Calvary English Baptist Chapel Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Cwmbwrla
Town
Locality
Easting
265088
Northing
195234
Street Side
Location
On a corner site with main front facing N on to Elgin Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Ca 1909. Influence of W Beddoe Rees. Art Nouveau/late Gothic style.
Exterior
Snecked facings, pale freestone dressings (some red brick) slate roofs with tiled cresting. Gable flanked by poloygonal turrets with apsed staircase towers. Traceried 5-light window, band of blind panels over moulded arched doorway, chequered turrets with ball finials. Distinctive cusped panels and lights to crenellated top storey of stairs, buttressed side elevation with cross gable; 2 light cusped windows as before. Similar treatment to school-room gable with 3-light plain window over arched doorway, outside stairs to right. Piers and railing to forecourt.
Interior
Interior of chapel has intruded angles for open-handrail stairs. 3-sided ceiled roof with "crossing" bay over pulpit area, collar-beam trusses with arched braces resting on curved corbels. U-plan gallery with bowed, ironwork authemion panels, cast-iron columns; swept down gallery front below organ in arched chamber; perpendicular pulpit and open work handrails. Rear school-room with 3-sided ceiling roof, trusses on wall-posts, cast-iron columns behind panelled screens (one side only).
Reason for designation
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