Unitarian Chapel (Elim Pentecostal Church), Bridgend, Bridgend

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.507 / 51°30'25"N

Longitude: -3.5817 / 3°34'54"W

OS Eastings: 290324

OS Northings: 179860

OS Grid: SS903798

Mapcode National: GBR HD.J7SN

Mapcode Global: VH5HJ.VDW2

Plus Code: 9C3RGC49+R8

Entry Name: Unitarian Chapel (Elim Pentecostal Church)

Listing Date: 29 September 1986

Last Amended: 29 September 1986

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 11315

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Unitarian Chapel (Elim Pentecostal Church)

ID on this website: 300011315

Location: Situated on the corner with Newcastle Hill, set back behind rubble wall; stepped down towards corner entrance with cast iron gates.

County: Bridgend

Community: Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr)

Community: Bridgend

Locality: Newcastle

Built-Up Area: Bridgend

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: Church building Chapel

Find accommodation in
Bridgend

History

Bridgend was an important Noncomformist centre. Site acquired in 1702 by Michael Williams, later sherrif; chapel built sometime after and in use by 1717. Rebuilt in Georgian style 1795. Became the Unitarian Chapel following early C19 split which led to the foundation of the Tabernacle Chapel.

Exterior

Roughcast 4-window front and 2-window side elevations; hipped slate roof. 2-semicircular headed small pane sash windows with intersecting glazing bars to front below blocked roundels and flanked at mezzanine levels above and below by segmental headed small pane sash windows, those below are probably altered former entrances. 1795 date plaque to centre. 2-semicircular headed sash windows to left end as on the front; blocked openings to right end where later lower lean-to extension with chimney stack adjoins forward to Newcastle Hill SW side forming entrance and vestry, architrave to doorways rubble rear.

Interior

Remodelled rectangular interior, pulpit and entrances probably formerly on front wall; modern fittings and coloured glass, arched ceiling, 1 small Gothic monument.

External Links

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

Other nearby listed buildings

II* St John's Hospice
Set into slope, half way up the hill; small rubble walled gardens flanking entrance.
II* Old Bridge
Pedestrian bridge spanning the River Ogwr, a short way downstream from New Bridge.
II NO.10 Dunraven Place, Mid Glamorgan
Detached at the N end with River Ogwr to rear; Old Bridge to left.
II Anglian Windows Centre
Detached at the N end with River Ogwr to rear; Old Bridge to left.
II Dental Surgery
Set back from street frontages, facing up Dunraven Place towards the Wyndham Hotel; River Ogwr to rear.
II Clay Travel
At the end of a continuous row of frontages beside Old Bridge. Formerly the Bear Hotel (cf view of 1897).
II Astley Samuel Leeder
Facing up Market Street.
II Britannia Building Society
Facing up Market Street.

BritishListedBuildings.co.uk is an independent online resource and is not associated with any government department. All government data published here is used under licence. Please do not contact BritishListedBuildings.co.uk for any queries related to any individual listed building, planning permission related to listed buildings or the listing process itself.

British Listed Buildings is a Good Stuff website.

British Listed Buildings

History in Structure

Unitarian Chapel (Elim Pentecostal Church)

A Grade II Listed Building in Bridgend, Bridgend