Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
20755
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/10/1998
Date of Amendment
10/11/2005
Name of Property
Entrance Gates, Boundary Wall and railings to former Bethany Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Abergavenny
Town
Abergavenny
Locality
Abergavenny
Easting
329980
Northing
214301
Street Side
SE
Location
Fronting the roadway on north-east side of Market Street along the boundary of the former Bethany Chapel.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Baptist Chapel of 1882, designed by E A Johnson of Abergavenny, built by local contractor J G Thomas. The same design used for the railings and gates at the Bethany Chapel appears in a contemporary pattern book issued by W A Baker & Co. Ltd, Architectural Ironfounders of Westgate Ironworks, Newport, Monmouthshire.
Exterior
Gates and railings in Aesthetic Movement style dating from 1882. Gatepiers of red brick with Bath stone dressings have chamfered stone bases, brick piers with vertical recessed panels and big pyramidal capping stones. Cast-iron entrance gates and railings have horizontal panels with marginal bars enclosing, at the angles, small sunflowers as paterae; inset centre panels have large radiating sun-rays.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the former Bethany Chapel and for the special interest of the contemporary ironwork.
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