Former Bethlehem Baptist Church aka Ty Capel, Ewenny, Vale of Glamorgan

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.485 / 51°29'5"N

Longitude: -3.5616 / 3°33'41"W

OS Eastings: 291668

OS Northings: 177383

OS Grid: SS916773

Mapcode National: GBR HF.KLVW

Mapcode Global: VH5HK.7X0Z

Plus Code: 9C3RFCMQ+X9

Entry Name: Former Bethlehem Baptist Church aka Ty Capel

Listing Date: 3 September 1984

Last Amended: 3 March 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 11332

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Bethlehem Baptist Chapel

ID on this website: 300011332

Location: On the main thoroughfare through Corntown on W side of village.

County: Vale of Glamorgan

Town: Ewenny

Community: Ewenny (Ewenni)

Community: Ewenny

Locality: Corntown

Built-Up Area: Ewenny

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: House Former church

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History

Chapel built 1841, Sunday School extension 1925. Pool in Corntown village at The Nant formerly used for mass baptisms. Converted to house 1980s with part of Sunday School a garage.

Exterior

Simple rectangular building with side wall facade extended to right. Of painted and rendered stone, deeply horizontally channelled to front with raised band at corners, roughcast to sides; shallow pitched Welsh slate roof with terracotta ridge, low end stack left. Four round headed windows: long centre pair, short to sides over gallery, all multipane sashes with intersecting tracery with raised margins. Doorways at each side with raised margins are round headed with replaced doors incorporating fanlights. Sunday school extension has replaced rectangular windows and doors, retains raised surrounds. Bordered to front by rubble wall with ashlar saddle back coping, original end piers with pyramidal caps, iron railings with fleur de lys finials to stanchions and scrolls and spears to gates.

Interior

Converted to residential use.

Reasons for Listing

Included notwithstanding alteration since first listed for its street frontage which retains much of its original character.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Corntown Farmhouse
Near the village centre facing the main thoroughfare.
II Corntown Court
Near the E edge of the village, set well back from the road, with gated entry to right.
II Ewenny Community Village Hall
Set on a bank above the main road between Ewenny and Corntown, a little W of Corntown village and nearly opposite Top Lodge, the former S entrance to Ewenny Priory House.
II* Former SE Tower at Ewenny Priory (house)
At the SE corner of Ewenny Priory (house) lawned garden adjacent to the haha forming the S boundary.
II Top Lodge
Situated on the main Corntown thoroughfare, at the SW entrance to Ewenny Priory parkland.
I Romanesque gateway in former E precinct wall at Ewenny Priory (house)
Set in stretch of original medieval precinct wall on E side of Ewenny Priory (house) garden.
II* E Precinct Wall at Ewenny Priory (house)
Aligned roughly N/S in Ewenny Priory (house) garden, joining churchyard at SE and former SE gatehouse.
II* Ewenny Priory (house)
About 1km NE of Ewenny village, to S of Ewenny Priory to which house is attached.

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Former Bethlehem Baptist Church aka Ty Capel

A Grade II Listed Building in Ewenny, Vale of Glamorgan