Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ebenezer Congregationalist Chapel
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bangor, Gwynedd, designated on 29 October 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 29 October 1987
- Community
- Bangor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22655, -4.12460
- Cadw reference
- 4132
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1896 map "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On steeply sloping site between High Street and Caellepa with New Ebenezer Place to rear.
History
Dated 1858; Classical. Replaced a previous chapel of 1810 and was closed in 1967 when it was united with Pendref Chapel, High Street.
Exterior
Pedimented 2-storey, 3-window-stucco front with oval tablet to the pediment over plain entablature. Rusticated heavily tooled stone ground floor; slate roof. Giant Ionic pilasters flank arched headed 2-light windows with keystones, architraves and cill bands; later glazing, Venetian derived central window with corbels. Central arched entrance with similar architrave, panelled reveals and panelled doors. 5-bay side elevation to Caellepa with similar arched headed windows and key-stones; wide eaves.
Attached at the rear is the school room cross range; gable end to Caellepa with bracket eaves. Round windows to the gable with two arched headed windows below flanking central entrance, altered by modern hood.
The York Place and Caellepa elevations have cast-iron spearhead railings forward to the street. To the front they are set on a rubble wall with end piers and freestone piers to the arched central gates.
Interior
Interior fittings are said to have been removed.
Nearby in the register
- The Coffee PotCommercialunder 1 mi
- Oliver'sCommercialunder 1 mi
- J.Welch & Co.Commercialunder 1 mi
- National Westminster BankCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.