Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tabernacle Chapel Hall
Coedffranc, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Skewen, Coedffranc, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 29 March 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 29 March 2000
- Locality
- Skewen
- Community
- Coedffranc
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66019, -3.84137
- Cadw reference
- 23076
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated directly opposite Tabernacle Chapel.
History
Probably built c1897 and contemporary with the rebuilding of the chapel.
Exterior
A single-storey hall with a snecked rock-faced stone front facing the street, roughcast side and rear walls, and slate roof. The front has 4 windows with round heads, lighter stone dressings with keystones, and Y-tracery. A yellow-brick lean-to at the R end has blue-brick dressings. A boarded door under a round overlight is in its L side, with 3 round-headed windows facing the street. The L gable end of the hall has 2 round-headed windows with Y-tracery. The R gable end has 2 tiers of 2 round-headed windows with Y-tracery, the upper windows lighting the gallery. To the rear are 2 round-headed windows and, at the R end, a lower gabled wing with end ridge stack and 2 plain windows in the gable end.
Interior
A boarded and ribbed ceiling forms 2 large central panels with ceiling roses. A stage has a panelled proscenium arch. The gallery at the opposite end, above the entrance, has a single cast iron column with foliage capital, and an open work cast iron gallery front of bellied cross section. Beneath the gallery is a movable panelled screen.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Tabernacle Chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Tabernacle ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Horeb ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gorphwysfa ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Quaker's Viaduct (partly in Dyffryn Clydach community)Transportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.