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Latitude: 51.874 / 51°52'26"N
Longitude: -5.1957 / 5°11'44"W
OS Eastings: 180112
OS Northings: 224315
OS Grid: SM801243
Mapcode National: GBR C8.S3X3
Mapcode Global: VH0TM.W5L8
Plus Code: 9C3PVRF3+HP
Entry Name: Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel
Listing Date: 4 February 1991
Last Amended: 4 February 1991
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 12457
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel
ID on this website: 300012457
Location: Set back on northern side of High Street, opposite Portland Place.
County: Pembrokeshire
Town: Solfach Uchaf/ Upper Solva
Community: Solva (Solfach)
Community: Solva
Built-Up Area: Solva
Traditional County: Pembrokeshire
Tagged with: Chapel
Built 1862-3 for £753.8.4½ by William Harris and John Richards, masons and Joshua Morris and Son, Newport, carpenters.
1863, rubble stone with slate roof. Stucco gable front. Flanking raised piers with impost bands and caps under granite three-pointed finials. Coped centre medium-pitched gable with small granite finials. Main facade is slightly recessed under four-centred pointed broad arch springing from pier imposts. Two long, round-arched windows with centre timber mullion, Y-tracery heads and small-pane glazing. Round arched centre door with Y-tracery head and Y-tracery glazing bars to each light. Cusped trefoil between. Double doors. Pair of narrow, round-arched windows with single sill and small-paned glazing over door and date plaque ‘Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel AD 1867’ above. Two-window range each side and 2 to N end wall.
Forecourt has rubble stone in-curving walls from street and pair of iron gates between granite piers.
Unaltered interior with panel-fronted gallery on 3 sides carried on 3 x 3 marbled wood columns on high bases. Complete set of box pews. Raised pulpit reached by paired stairs each side, front ornamented with intersected half-circles. Centre rear wall has large blank panel in open segmental-pedimented frame on 2 long, marbled columns. Flat panelled roof with canted sides. Centre rose and chandelier.
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