Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hermon Chapel
Bridgend, Bridgend, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 29 September 1986
- Town
- Bridgend
- Community
- Bridgend
- Unitary authority
- Bridgend
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.50394, -3.57641
- Cadw reference
- 11302
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road near the junction with Merthyr Mawr Road; former chapel houses forward to the street to left and right.
History
Dated 1862 (permission granted in June to build a new chapel, vestry and 2 houses) by Robert Roberts at a cost of £2,245.
Exterior
Italian Renaissance open-pedimented stucco 3-bay front with channelled base and plinth voussoired ‘glorification arch’ to recessed centre. Wide cornice, plain entablature, ionic pilasters on cill band flanking side bays with tall round headed lights; tripartite window to centre with bracketed cill below date plaque (reading Hermon AD 1862) with classical canopy and over raised moulded arched entrance with impost bands; boarded doors. Keystones to all arches.
Broad architraves to tall arched windows on cement render left side, vestry adjoins at rear and reached by side lane.
Contemporary interior with panel-fronted gallery supported on cast-iron columns with foliage capitals. Painted wooden ceiling, trefoil decoration to organ case behind big seat; slightly ramped pews.
Former lower Chapel houses forward to left and right are not of special interest.
Nearby in the register
- Garth CelynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Nolton CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Nolton CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Nolton Tithe BarnAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.