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Latitude: 51.504 / 51°30'14"N
Longitude: -3.5764 / 3°34'35"W
OS Eastings: 290683
OS Northings: 179513
OS Grid: SS906795
Mapcode National: GBR HD.JH3T
Mapcode Global: VH5HJ.YGNF
Plus Code: 9C3RGC3F+HC
Entry Name: Hermon Chapel
Listing Date: 29 September 1986
Last Amended: 29 September 1986
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11302
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Hermon Chapel
ID on this website: 300011302
Location: Set back from the road near the junction with Merthyr Mawr Road; former chapel houses forward to the street to left and right.
County: Bridgend
Town: Bridgend
Community: Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr)
Community: Bridgend
Built-Up Area: Bridgend
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Chapel
Dated 1862 (permission granted in June to build a new chapel, vestry and 2 houses) by Robert Roberts at a cost of £2,245.
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.
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