Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former School Room to Rear of Ebeneser Chapel
Castle, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1975
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48134, -3.17317
- Cadw reference
- 13669
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
To rear of Ebeneser Chapel.
History
1871, by W D Blessley.
Exterior
Rectangular block with Gothic motifs built against apsidal end of church and connected to it on its northern side by a short corridor wing with a six-light unglazed opening in its front wall. Schoolroom faced externally in stone. Slate roof. At northern end of south-west elevation, facing towards Charles Street and to north of corridor wing there is a tall narrow gabled porch flanked to each side by a narrow single light window. At the south end of the same elevation there is a further gabled porch. Church parlour of 1889 built against southern elevation; gabled south-west elevation of church parlour has a flat-roofed ground floor projection with a blind rectangular centre panel flanked to each side by a short paired lancet window. From north to south, rear elevation of schoolroom has two-light windows with daggers over, blocked doorway, two external stone chimneys and a single window.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Ebeneser Chapel (URC)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Boundary Walls & Piers to Churchyard of Ebeneser URCReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St David's Roman Catholic CathedralReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 44 Charles StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.