Former Horeb Welsh Presbyterian Church, Laleston, Bridgend

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5062 / 51°30'22"N

Longitude: -3.6186 / 3°37'6"W

OS Eastings: 287760

OS Northings: 179822

OS Grid: SS877798

Mapcode National: GBR HB.JBJ5

Mapcode Global: VH5HJ.7DCQ

Plus Code: 9C3RG94J+FH

Entry Name: Former Horeb Welsh Presbyterian Church

Listing Date: 31 May 1990

Last Amended: 29 January 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 11364

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Former Horeb Welsh Presbyterian Church

ID on this website: 300011364

Location: On the E edge of the village, side onto the main thoroughfare.

County: Bridgend

Community: Laleston (Trelales)

Community: Laleston

Built-Up Area: Trelales

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: Church building Chapel

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History

Built 1831. Adjoining schoolroom and house added later. Complex now used as a small independent school and interior of chapel thus converted.

Exterior

A small rectangular building of coursed dressed stone with mostly tooled dressings, rendered to side and rear; Welsh slate roof with boarded eaves, gable finial. Gable end front has large kneelers joined by a string course above which is central moulded plaque with eroded inscription. Two tall pointed arched windows with small-pane fixed glazing, intersecting tracery, chamfered surrounds and sills; on either side pointed-arched doorways with similar tracery in overlight and boarded doors; step left with nosing; low clasping buttress with offset to left, right side adjoins schoolroom; battered plinth. Side elevations have similar single windows with moulded render surround; two to rear. Chapel faces onto a yard of stone flags and together with later schoolroom and house complex is bordered by a low wall of rockfaced stone, piers with saddleback copings and tooled pyramidal caps, gates and iron railings with decorative stanchions.

Interior

Interior now used as schoolroom. Raked gallery against front wall with bowed ironwork front, bracketed out to base, supported by single cast-iron Corinthian pier, curving out slightly against side walls. Moulded ceiling cornice. Curved wooden staircase to gallery.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as an example of a well preserved early C19 chapel; group value with The Oystercatcher Public House and Village Farm House.

External Links

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Village Farm House
Near the centre of the village a little E of the church and facing the main village throughfare on a corner of a small lane.
II The Oystercatcher Public House
Just E of village centre facing main thoroughfare.
II Churchyard Cross in St David's churchyard
On the S side of the church near the porch.
I Church of St David
In the centre of the village, on a slight rise above the High Street. Church stands in a roughly circular churchyard surrounded by rubble wall with wrought iron gates S and E.
II Cliff Cottage
Opposite W end of Church of St David and on a rise above High Street.
II* Ty Mawr aka The Great House
On the main village thoroughfare a short distance SW of the Church of St David.
II The Laleston Inn
In the village centre just N of the church and directly fronting the street.
II Milepost
Nearly opposite Ty Mawr on the N side of the main village throughfare.

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Former Horeb Welsh Presbyterian Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Laleston, Bridgend