Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Chapel House (former Bronington Chequer Methodist Chapel)
Bronington, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in The Chequer, Bronington, Wrexham, designated on 21 February 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 21 February 1994
- Locality
- The Chequer
- Community
- Bronington
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.96229, -2.75416
- Cadw reference
- 14652
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1861 · 73. Market Drayton. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 122 Nantwich (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set slightly back from the road approximately 1.4km W of the road junction at Redbrook.
History
A Methodist chapel, with integral minister's house, of 1820, disused by 1994 and converted to a house.
Exterior
A Georgian domestic style former chapel of brick with a hipped roof of old slates, and brick stack to the R of centre. The symmetrical 3-bay front, originally incorporating the chapel in the centre and L-hand bays, minister's house in the R-hand bay, has a central advanced entrance bay with pediment on a dentil cornice and dated stone tablet. The doorway has a reed-moulded doorcase and a door of flush and fielded panels. The original overlight has been boarded over. It is flanked on the L side by a fixed 16-pane window and on the R side (the ministers' house) by a 16-pane hornless sash window, both under keyed wedge lintels. The upper storey has round-headed windows with keystones, incorporating pivoting lights below radial glazing, of which the window in the L-hand bay was added during conversion to a dwelling. In the R end wall is a boarded lean-to porch with boarded door, the original entrance to the minister's house. The rear of the chapel, which also has an advanced central bay, is dominated by 2 tall round-headed windows with iron-frame glazing, late C19 windows replacing original much shorter windows under the same heads. In the L-hand bay, the former minister's house, is a lean-to boarded canopy over a boarded door, with 2-light casement window to its R and 2 similar windows in the upper storey.
Interior
The interior has been rebuilt.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a former chapel and minister's house in a single integrated design, retaining definite Georgian external character after conversion,
Nearby in the register
- The Old RectoryNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Crofts BankNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Whitewell parish hallNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Gate LodgeNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.