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Latitude: 51.5075 / 51°30'27"N
Longitude: -3.5766 / 3°34'35"W
OS Eastings: 290677
OS Northings: 179911
OS Grid: SS906799
Mapcode National: GBR HD.J92J
Mapcode Global: VH5HJ.YCKP
Plus Code: 9C3RGC5F+29
Entry Name: Hope Baptist Chapel including attached vestry and schoolroom
Listing Date: 11 September 2003
Last Amended: 11 September 2003
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 81346
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Hope English Baptist Chapel
ID on this website: 300081346
Location: Occupying a prominent triangular site between Station Hill and Derwen Road with attached church offices grouped around the Station Hill entrance. The main façade faces N over a walled and railed fore
County: Bridgend
Community: Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr)
Community: Bridgend
Locality: Railway Station
Built-Up Area: Bridgend
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Chapel
Built 1906-08 by Philip J Thomas of Bridgend for English-speaking Baptists. Recently cleaned and renovated externally.
Large Gothic Revival chapel with pale sandstone dressings and grey hammer-dressed facings in thin courses; slate roofs with base of ventilator to main ridge. Three-bay gabled main façade with polygonal turrets flanking a big Geometric-traceried window with porch gable rising into blind frieze of 5 cusped panels of alternating design. Stepped buttresses flank the central doorway with deeply moulded arch-head; double boarded doors with strapwork hinges. Single cusped lancets under hoodmoulds step up to flanking stair towers under transverse slated gables; diagonal corner buttresses. Two-storey side elevations with tall return ranges forming a T-plan at S end; traceried heads to 2-light windows and square-headed ground-floor lancets. The downhill elevation to Derwen Road is 3 storeys with pointed doorway and plain sash windows to church hall. Lean-to vestries attached to S end with gables of similar church offices and Sunday School completing the group to left along Station Hill.
Spacious T-plan interior with ribbed and boarded ceiling of 5-sided profile and tie-rods linked to feet of trusses. Exceptional cantilevered gallery on metalwork frame, concealed by sinuous panelled front, sweeps forward from transepts and circles round at main N galleried end. Openwork metal-panelled front with concave palmette frieze over fluted bolection mounding; sinuous timber handrails. Full-height blind Gothic arch flanked by smaller openings rises behind polygonal reading desk with alabaster parapet to immersion pool at front. Vestibule under N gallery with twin baluster stairs to upper level. Art Nouveau patterned glass to window heads. Church hall runs under main chapel with I-beam floor joists.
Listed as a prominent Edwardian chapel by a well-known Bridgend architect with an exceptional cantilevered gallery within well-preserved interior.
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