Notes from BLI Schedule:
Address:
Ysguthan Road, Port Talbot
Description:
Imposing traditional chapel built in stone (See Coflein description below)
Justification for Consideration:
A prominent and notable local building which is part of the social fabric of the
area.
Coflein:
Bethlehem Methodist Chapel was built 1914 on the site of the Sandfields Hall (NPRN 404411).
It is constructed in the Classical style, as a gable entry type, and with the central bay of the façade set forward slightly of the outer two bays. The large central, round-headed doorway has an ashlar stone surround with a keystone carrying the date 1914. Over the double doors is a fanlight with a series of six, stepped, round-headed glass panels containing leaded lights with Art Nouveau motifs picked out in coloured glass. Over the doorway is a large round-headed window with similar moulded voussiors to the doorway, and a large keystone with fluted decoration and a triangular pediment. An inscription on the voussoirs reads ‘BETHLEHEM F M HALL’.
The ground and first floor windows are flat-headed, with a stone panel set vertically between them decorated with an indented rectangle. Over the first floor windows are triangular pediments. The winged pediment is marked out by a series of small moulded corbel supporting the cornice and eaves line. In 2003 it was still in use as Bethlehem Evangelical Church.
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