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Latitude: 51.626 / 51°37'33"N
Longitude: -3.9422 / 3°56'32"W
OS Eastings: 265653
OS Northings: 193693
OS Grid: SS656936
Mapcode National: GBR WS5.GC
Mapcode Global: VH4K9.MD7C
Plus Code: 9C3RJ3G5+94
Entry Name: Ebenezer Baptist Chapel
Listing Date: 30 March 1987
Last Amended: 30 March 1987
Grade: II*
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11574
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Ebenezer Baptist Church
Ebenezer English Baptist
ID on this website: 300011574
Location: Dominant building in a narrow side street off High Street and close to the railway station.
County: Swansea
Community: Castle (Castell)
Community: Castle
Built-Up Area: Swansea
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Chapel Protestant church building
Dated 1862, possibly designed by Rev Thomas Thomas. Formerly the Ebenezer Chapel of the Welsh Independents.
Fine 3 bay neo-classical facade with steep open pediment to gable (possibly influenced by C R Cockerell’s designs). Giant vermiculated arch supported by broken entablature on angle pilasters with egg-and-dart capitals; linking impost and cill-bands. Recessed centre with inscribed tablet over stepped triple light with architraves and tracery; balustraded apron over entablature to tetrastyle Doric portico in antis. Bipartite windows with detailing as before to side bays.
2 storey hall gable of 1894 adjoins to left, similar style with 3 lights over 4 lights with centre pilaster and doorway breaching cill band. Attached house with scrolled entrance to Mission Hall at rear (not of special interest).
Spacious rectangular interior to chapel with boarded and ribbed ceiling, rich acanthus foliage to twin roses, groined coving over street window. Excellent, continuous gallery swept down below Gothic organ-case at N end; classical pulpit in front, pilasters, modillion cornice, gold stencilling etc and sinuous balustraded handrails to platform with volute brackets to reading desk. Tapering cast-iron columns with acanthus leaves and egg-and-dart capitals under gallery. Good panelled box pews and Greek wall tablets.
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