Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Jerusalem Baptist Chapel
Bryn, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 20 August 1999
- Locality
- Bryn
- Community
- Bryn
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.61740, -3.71284
- Cadw reference
- 22166
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
On the E side of the main housing estate in Bryn, set back from and above the B4282 Cwmavon to Maesteg road.
History
Built in 1858 (date on building). The present baptistery and pulpit were added late C19, the present pews early C20, while the render to the front is also early C20.
Exterior
Simple classical style chapel with pebble-dashed front, roughcast side and rear walls and slate roof. The gable-end front has cement render quoins and dressings integral with the pebble dash. A pair of round headed windows to the centre have inserted small-pane glazing in original openings, above which is a tablet with an elliptical sandstone panel bearing the name and date of the chapel. Doorways to the L and R have boarded doors and plain overlights. A tall round-headed window is in the R side wall. A similar window in the L wall is now blocked, as are a former pair of round-headed windows to the rear.
Interior
A 3-sided raked gallery is carried on plain cast iron piers. Its front has panelled fretwork above a corbel table. The deal benches with moulded ends are early C20. Simple ribbed and boarded ceiling. The pulpit, flanked by steps with ornate moulded and fluted newels, has cast iron twisted balusters and scrolled brackets. The baptistery is enclosed by rails with similar newels and balusters and has a well beneath the floorboards.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding minor later additions, as a well-preserved mid C19 chapel with a fine gallery of rare panelled design.
Nearby in the register
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- Cefn yr Argoed CampEnclosure2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.