History

Probably built c1897 and contemporary with the rebuilding of the chapel.

Exterior

A single-storey hall with a snecked rock-faced stone front facing the street, roughcast side and rear walls, and slate roof. The front has 4 windows with round heads, lighter stone dressings with keystones, and Y-tracery. A yellow-brick lean-to at the R end has blue-brick dressings. A boarded door under a round overlight is in its L side, with 3 round-headed windows facing the street. The L gable end of the hall has 2 round-headed windows with Y-tracery. The R gable end has 2 tiers of 2 round-headed windows with Y-tracery, the upper windows lighting the gallery. To the rear are 2 round-headed windows and, at the R end, a lower gabled wing with end ridge stack and 2 plain windows in the gable end.

Interior

A boarded and ribbed ceiling forms 2 large central panels with ceiling roses. A stage has a panelled proscenium arch. The gallery at the opposite end, above the entrance, has a single cast iron column with foliage capital, and an open work cast iron gallery front of bellied cross section. Beneath the gallery is a movable panelled screen.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for group value with Tabernacle Chapel.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29500238

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)