Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
22805
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/2000
Date of Amendment
31/01/2000
Name of Property
Forecourt Walls, Railings and Gates to Ebenezer Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Aberavon
Town
Port Talbot
Locality
Aberavon
Easting
276540
Northing
190207
Street Side
Location
Bounding the forecourt to Ebenezer Chapel and facing W.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Contemporary with the rebuilding of Ebenezer Chapel in 1880, and probably also by George Morgan of Carmarthen.
Exterior
Centrally-placed ashlar gate piers with chamfered angles, bases with chamfered top edges and ornate capstones, flanked by low snecked walls with saddleback ashlar copings. These support short iron railings, the uprights with alternating fleur-de-lis and scrolled finials. Open arches with decorated cusped heads between uprights and below top rail. A frieze of small quatrefoils is set between double bottom rails, also with fleur-de-lis finials. Double iron gates to entrance in a similar style, with 3 bands of quatrefoils, the upper ones with finials. Ashlar end piers to match gate piers, with rubble stone walls returning to E and adjoining the chapel. Set in the N face of the S wall is an oval iron plaque inscribed 'ebenezer/ baptist church/ 1836.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for the fine ironwork.
Group value with Ebenezer Chapel.
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