Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Forecourt Walls, Railings and Gates to Ebenezer Chapel
Aberavon, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2000
- Locality
- Aberavon
- Town
- Port Talbot
- Community
- Aberavon
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.59714, -3.78384
- Cadw reference
- 22805
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
Bounding the forecourt to Ebenezer Chapel and facing W.
History
Contemporary with the rebuilding of Ebenezer Chapel in 1880, and probably also by George Morgan of Carmarthen.
Exterior
Centrally-placed ashlar gate piers with chamfered angles, bases with chamfered top edges and ornate capstones, flanked by low snecked walls with saddleback ashlar copings. These support short iron railings, the uprights with alternating fleur-de-lis and scrolled finials. Open arches with decorated cusped heads between uprights and below top rail. A frieze of small quatrefoils is set between double bottom rails, also with fleur-de-lis finials. Double iron gates to entrance in a similar style, with 3 bands of quatrefoils, the upper ones with finials. Ashlar end piers to match gate piers, with rubble stone walls returning to E and adjoining the chapel. Set in the N face of the S wall is an oval iron plaque inscribed 'ebenezer/ baptist church/ 1836.
Reason for designation
Listed for the fine ironwork.
Group value with Ebenezer Chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Ebenezer ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Aberavon Bridge (partly in Port Talbot community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Aberavon Bridge (partly in Aberavon community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Afan Masonic TempleInstitutionalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.