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Latitude: 51.399 / 51°23'56"N
Longitude: -3.2875 / 3°17'14"W
OS Eastings: 310529
OS Northings: 167448
OS Grid: ST105674
Mapcode National: GBR HS.R3SQ
Mapcode Global: VH6FQ.Y3WC
Plus Code: 9C3R9PX7+H2
Entry Name: Porthkerry Methodist Church
Listing Date: 30 March 1995
Last Amended: 30 March 1995
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 15893
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Porthkerry Methodist Church, Porthkerry Road (N Side), Barry
ID on this website: 300015893
Location: On E corner of Porthkerry Road and Romilly Road.
County: Vale of Glamorgan
Community: Barry (Y Barri)
Community: Barry
Built-Up Area: Barry
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Church building Chapel
1897. By JP Jones, Richards, and Budgen, architects, of Cardiff.
Brown stone with bathstone dressings, slate roofs. Main entrance front in late Perpendicular style. Central bay defined by two large polygonal buttresses which run up as spirelets with cusped arcading and floral band. Floral finial to gable apex, large 7-light window with Perpendicular tracery. Entrance doorway has cusped 4-centred arch with ogee-headed panelling over, and finial. To each side of doorway, 2-light window with foiled reticulated tracery, ogee arch over. Hipped roofs to outer bays which have diagonal buttresses, band of floral relief at eaves; 2-light Perpendicular window to first floor, and entrance doorway with 4-centred arch, panelling with cusped arcading over. Sides have 4 bays with tall 2-light Perpendicular windows, and gabled transepts with diagonal buttresses and 4-light Perpendicular windows. Rear with projecting organ chamber.
Spacious but simple interior with early C16 style details. Three-centred arch with finial to organ chamber; wooden panelled steps; similar (smaller) arches to vestries each side of organ; polygonal colonettes with floral capitals to side bays. Arch-braced roof (thin timbers), ceiled at collar level and boarded. Shallow gallery to front.
Included as fine example of late C19 Gothic chapel, especially for entrance front.
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