St David's Calvinstic Methodist Chapel

Heritage listing

Reason for designation: Listed for architectural interest as one of the finest later C19 Gothic town chapels in South Wales retaining its original character and detail. History: Presbyterian church of 1883, by Henry C Harris, architect of Cardiff. The design included a separate hall and Sunday school as part of a unified composition, a feature then becoming fashionable in chapel architecture. Exterior: A chapel and attached hall combined as a single composition in an Early Gothic style influenced by William Burges. Of snecked rock-faced sandstone with pink stone banding; Bathstone dressings to the front and yellow-brick dressings to the sides, modern tiled roof to chapel, clay tiles to hall. To the R, the main body of chapel has angle buttresses with gablets. At the lower level are 4 lancets with foundation tablets below. The upper level has 3 taller lancets with sill band, from the inner spandrels of which 2 diagonal shafts rise to frame a cusped round window in the gable. To each side is a single-storey porch with Gothic doorway with double boarded doors, above which, set back behind parapets, are hipped-roof half-timbered pavilions with 4-light windows lighting the gallery stairs. Behind these, to the sides, are 2 hipped roofs over the 4-bay buttressed side elevations. These have paired Gothic windows lighting the gallery, below which are 2-light mullion and transom windows. Rear has gabled organ projection with upper rose window, and ground floor polygonal minister s room. The hall is on the L side of the chapel. It has a polygonal front end with a 2-light plate tracery window and single side windows lighting the gallery stairs. Beneath the main window is a blind tripartite mullioned window. Doorways to the L and R are in lean-tos, hipped to the L side, and have boa

From Cadw under OGL v3.