Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Schoolroom to St Pauls Welsh Wesleyan Methodist Church
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1987
- Community
- Aberystwyth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.41382, -4.08647
- Cadw reference
- 10247
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set into the Street frontage with earlier Chapel attached to left; on the corner with St. James' square.
History
Dated 1903, cost £1,400.
Exterior
Similar classical style to the chapel. 2-storey, 3-bay gable ended front with pediment treatment; bull-nosed rubble with freestone dressings, gable parapet, plinth and banding continuos with the chapel; slate roof. Balustraded parapet with finials to ends over advanced outer bays. Central tripartite window with arched heads and pilasters under dressed arched surround, dated roundel, keystone and attic roundel; flanked by giant order composite pilasters. Arched headed sash windows to outer bays with keystones and fret pattern impost blocks. Central moulded arched entrance with double panelled doors and fanlight.
4-window, 5-bay buttressed right side with stock brick dressings; dormers with flat roofs and cross frame windows. Arched headed Venetian style 2-light windows below, blocked to left.
Interior
Open roofed interior closed in at collar level, with twin-arched braces below. Now converted to Chapel use following disuse of Chapel.
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
Nearby in the register
- St.Pauls Welsh Wesleyan Methodist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 9 Princess StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 51 Great Darkgate StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- HardwareCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.