Mount Calvary English Baptist Chapel, Cwmbwrla, Swansea

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6398 / 51°38'23"N

Longitude: -3.951 / 3°57'3"W

OS Eastings: 265086

OS Northings: 195242

OS Grid: SS650952

Mapcode National: GBR WQS.WZ

Mapcode Global: VH4K9.G1LS

Plus Code: 9C3RJ2QX+WH

Entry Name: Mount Calvary English Baptist Chapel

Listing Date: 30 March 1987

Last Amended: 30 March 1987

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 11677

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Mount Calvary English Baptist Chapel

ID on this website: 300011677

Location: On a corner site with main front facing N on to Elgin Street.

County: Swansea

Community: Cwmbwrla

Built-Up Area: Swansea

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: Chapel

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History

Ca 1909. Influence of W Beddoe Rees. Art Nouveau/late Gothic style.

Exterior

Snecked facings, pale freestone dressings (some red brick) slate roofs with tiled cresting. Gable flanked by poloygonal turrets with apsed staircase towers. Traceried 5-light window, band of blind panels over moulded arched doorway, chequered turrets with ball finials. Distinctive cusped panels and lights to crenellated top storey of stairs, buttressed side elevation with cross gable; 2 light cusped windows as before. Similar treatment to school-room gable with 3-light plain window over arched doorway, outside stairs to right. Piers and railing to forecourt.

Interior

Interior of chapel has intruded angles for open-handrail stairs. 3-sided ceiled roof with "crossing" bay over pulpit area, collar-beam trusses with arched braces resting on curved corbels. U-plan gallery with bowed, ironwork authemion panels, cast-iron columns; swept down gallery front below organ in arched chamber; perpendicular pulpit and open work handrails. Rear school-room with 3-sided ceiling roof, trusses on wall-posts, cast-iron columns behind panelled screens (one side only).

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Mount Calvary English Baptist Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in Cwmbwrla, Swansea