Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Watergate Baptist Church
Brecon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Brecon, Powys, designated on 16 December 1976.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 16 December 1976
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Brecon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.94830, -3.39338
- Cadw reference
- 7083
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 213 Brecon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from Street next to Afon Honddu.
History
Built circa 1806; rebuilt circa 1880.
Exterior
Chapel with classical detailing; stucco. Pedimented front with roundel; urn finial. Quoins. Beneath the pediment, three semi-circular headed windows with margin lights in openings with keystones; shorter centre window with its head breaking into tympanum of pediment. Quoins. Central semi-circular headed stuccoed doorway with rusticated pilasters, archivolt with toothed course and keystone. North-west elevation to the Honddu of 2 storeys, 2 bays. To rear, 2 tall round-arched windows.
Reason for designation
Chapel with well-preserved character, in prominent position by Afon Honddu.
Nearby in the register
- 7 WatergateNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Forecourt Walls, Piers, Gates and Railings to Watergate Baptist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 6 WatergateNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Former Watergate MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.