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Latitude: 51.6657 / 51°39'56"N
Longitude: -3.9223 / 3°55'20"W
OS Eastings: 267153
OS Northings: 198074
OS Grid: SS671980
Mapcode National: GBR GY.Q5HT
Mapcode Global: VH4K3.YDTF
Plus Code: 9C3RM38H+73
Entry Name: Seion Chapel
Listing Date: 30 September 1993
Last Amended: 30 September 1993
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11736
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Seion Chapel
ID on this website: 300011736
County: Swansea
Community: Morriston (Treforys)
Community: Morriston
Built-Up Area: Swansea
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Chapel
11736
Set back from road in graveyard with some good memorials, behind stone wall with iron railings.
Baptist Chapel of 1870, replacing earlier building of 1846. Coursed brown stone with freestone dressings, rock-faced plinth, slate roof.
Gabled entrance front faces road. Gable treated as pediment has oculus with cinquefoil. Entablature with inscriptions 'Seion', '1845' (referring to date of incorporation of chapel), and 'Capel Y Bedyddwyr 1870'.
Three bay front articulated by Tuscan pilasters; outer bays each have tall round-headed window with simple tracery; central bay has group of three round-headed windows at gallery level, round-headed entrance doorway below. Side elevations of five bays articulated by pilasters as front, tall round-headed windows. To rear, gable has cinquefoil oculus; pilasters to ends;
attached single-storey annexe in brown stone (rear rendered). Two round-headed windows to SE side (blocked window to L), and camber-headed basement doorway; two round-headed windows to rear; NW side has two round-headed windows as SE and smaller window towards body of chapel; modern gabled porch.
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