Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel
Solva, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Solfach Uchaf/ Upper Solva, Solva, Pembrokeshire, designated on 4 February 1991.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 4 February 1991
- Town
- Solfach Uchaf/ Upper Solva
- Community
- Solva
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.87394, -5.19575
- Cadw reference
- 12457
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 209 St David's (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back on northern side of High Street, opposite Portland Place.
History
Built 1862-3 for £753.8.4½ by William Harris and John Richards, masons and Joshua Morris and Son, Newport, carpenters.
Exterior
1863, rubble stone with slate roof. Stucco gable front. Flanking raised piers with impost bands and caps under granite three-pointed finials. Coped centre medium-pitched gable with small granite finials. Main facade is slightly recessed under four-centred pointed broad arch springing from pier imposts. Two long, round-arched windows with centre timber mullion, Y-tracery heads and small-pane glazing. Round arched centre door with Y-tracery head and Y-tracery glazing bars to each light. Cusped trefoil between. Double doors. Pair of narrow, round-arched windows with single sill and small-paned glazing over door and date plaque ‘Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel AD 1867’ above. Two-window range each side and 2 to N end wall.
Forecourt has rubble stone in-curving walls from street and pair of iron gates between granite piers.
Interior
Unaltered interior with panel-fronted gallery on 3 sides carried on 3 x 3 marbled wood columns on high bases. Complete set of box pews. Raised pulpit reached by paired stairs each side, front ornamented with intersected half-circles. Centre rear wall has large blank panel in open segmental-pedimented frame on 2 long, marbled columns. Flat panelled roof with canted sides. Centre rose and chandelier.
Nearby in the register
- St TeiloDomesticunder 1 mi
- Capel BachReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- One of Two CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- 10 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.