Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ebenezer Chapel
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 1 July 1974
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Haverfordwest
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.80412, -4.97069
- Cadw reference
- 12196
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated raised above Perrot Road with chapel entry from Ebenezer Row.
History
Calvinistic Methodist chapel dated 1817 and 1844, set back behind two-storey schoolroom building of 1886. The present chapel probably dates from 1844. The interior was renovated in 1889 following the construction of the large new front building of 1885-6 on Perrot Road, all by D.E. Thomas of Haverfordwest. The Calvinistic Methodists had been associated with Tabernacle until 1790 when the congregation split and Tabernacle became Independent. Nathaniel Rowland continued the cause in premises in Bridge Street until 1807 when he was ejected. The new chapel was built in 1817 and enlarged in 1844. It was not until the schoolrooms were added that it acquired a formal front with two schoolrooms one over the other giving a tall Italianate facade. The works of 1885-9 cost £1600. The buildings were restored in 1967-9.
Exterior
Chapel set back behind two-storey schoolroom of 1886. The schoolroom has painted stucco front with slate hipped roof behind parapet. Two storeys, four bays, the inner ones closer spaced. Italianate classical style with rusticated ground floor, and upper floor with pilasters, entablature, dentil cornice and pediment set against panelled parapet. Ground floor has broad raised outer piers and 4 cambered-headed windows with radiating voussoirs. Moulded cornice broken forward over outer piers. First floor has Doric pilasters on pedestals, paired to outer angles and single flanking the two centre bays. Four long arched windows with moulded arches, pilaster jambs and panels below. The pilaster caps are continued as impost band behind the paired pilasters. Deep frieze broken forward over centre two bays and over outer paired pilasters, the centre inscribed 'Ebenezer', cornice with flat mutules, pediment over centre with oval sunk panel, and parapet with square sunk panel over outer pilasters, and long panel with roundel. Moulded coping. Windows are long casement pairs with plain fanlights, and on ground floor, casement pairs with segmental headed top lights. Similar detail to two-bay returns.
The original chapel behind is plain rendered with slate hipped roof and arched windows.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest for prominent stucco Italianate frontage to Perrot Road.
Nearby in the register
- Dwarf wall, railings and gates before the Ebenezer ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Allied HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Railings in front of Nos 1-6 Gloucester TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Gloucester TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.