Background
The first Baptist products and services in Goetre ended up held in local houses initially Wern Farm and then Ty-mawr. Saron Baptist Chapel, erected in 1826-7, was largely rebuilt in 1865 when it seems the developing was extended west, with the addition of a vestry/schoolroom and a next gallery earlier mentioned the pulpit, this extension is encompassed by the 3rd window on the extensive partitions.
Exterior
Painted rubble stone with brick dressings hipped Welsh slate roof. Windows are spherical-arched 3 over 6 small-pane horned sashes with intersecting tracery perhaps changed. Painted brick arched window-heads and stone sills. East entrance has added gabled entrance porch slate roof, plain bargeboards, pointed arched door-head with boarded door. Stone pill higher than inscribed:
SARON CHAPEL
Created 1826
REBUILT
1865
Flanking just about every side of porch (at very first-flooring degree) are round-arched gallery home windows. Prolonged-wall to north has 3 irregularly spaced tall arched sashes, 1 2 all modest paned, 8 over 12. Opposing long-wall to south (overlooking burial floor) has a few scaled-down sashes, with 3 more than 9 panes, much more frequently spaced, with boarded door with cambered brick head. Hooked up to west end is modern day lean-to which addresses nearly the full wall.
Interior
Interior not inspected at resurvey, the current checklist description has been revised.
A charming and unaltered interior of 1865, with painted woodwork. Entrance, maybe the unique of the 1820s, has Y-traceried overlight and panelled double-doorways which open immediately into chapel. Simple plaster ceiling no cornice. Shut boarded dado. Gallery stair to suitable has slender turned balusters. Raked gallery with open backed benches picket entrance, rectangular panels with simple chamfer. The gallery is supported on two slender cast iron columns shafts adorned with decorative spiral-turns. Major chapel has centre aisle with blocks of panelled pews either facet. Near-boarded benches form sq. ‘set fawr’ enclosure. Panelled pulpit, with facet stair to left. Pulpit and gallery entrance have appealing late C19 brass lamps with opaque glass chimneys mounted on projecting wall brackets. Four-panel doorway (to remaining of pulpit) offers entry to vestry and next gallery powering pulpit, whose operate and date are unclear. Front of gallery boldly inscribed in Gothic script ‘Praise Waiteth for Thee O God in Zion’.
Good reasons for Listing
Included as a small altered Baptist chapel of 1865 with fantastic inside fittings.
Posted by Dickie-Dai-Do on 2017-07-23 22:12:37
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