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.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29501738

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)