Raglan Baptist Chapel, Raglan, Monmouthshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7647 / 51°45'52"N

Longitude: -2.8556 / 2°51'20"W

OS Eastings: 341051

OS Northings: 207679

OS Grid: SO410076

Mapcode National: GBR JC.04D5

Mapcode Global: VH79H.GX72

Plus Code: 9C3VQ47V+VQ

Entry Name: Raglan Baptist Chapel

Listing Date: 31 January 2001

Last Amended: 12 February 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 24743

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300024743

Location: Situated set back from Usk Road in lawned yard, approached by path from road.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Raglan

Community: Raglan (Rhaglan)

Community: Raglan

Built-Up Area: Raglan

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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History

Baptist Chapel of c1860 in red brick. There are records of an Ebenezer Chapel on Usk Road from 1820-37, in the Public Records Office.

Exterior

Baptist Chapel, red brick, with C20 concrete tiles to hipped roof. Rectangular plan, entry from short end. Flat boarded eaves. Three-bay E front has arched windows in arched recesses, the centre window half-length, over double 4-panel doors. Brick door head and window arches. Facade is framed by raised angle strips and band under eaves. Flat-roofed timber porch on 2 iron columns. Affixed Phoenix Insurance plaque.
Long 3-window side walls with similar arched long windows, not recessed. Windowless rear with small gabled vestry attached, with 2 W windows and N end door. Chapel windows are renewed in C20, square-paned with radiating bars to arched heads. Stone sills. Brickwork is Flemish bond to front, and a varied garden-wall bond elsewhere.

Interior

Plain later pews and pulpit, later C19 or early C20 organ behind pulpit, by Blackett & Howden. Entrance end gallery with enclosed stairs at NE. Gallery is on 2 thin fluted iron columns. Timber grained gallery front, vertical panels with cornice beneath and moulded top rail. Plaster ceiling with coved cornice and 3 acanthus roses.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a mid C19 chapel with late Georgian style detail in fine brickwork and retaining gallery within.

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Raglan Baptist Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in Raglan, Monmouthshire