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Horeb Welsh Baptist Chapel, Castle Hill, Gelligaer

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NPRN9578
Map ReferenceST19NW
Grid ReferenceST1364096980
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCaerphilly
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityGelligaer
Type Of SiteCHAPEL
PeriodPost Medieval
Description

Horeb Baptist Chapel was built in 1848, with modifications in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The present chapel, dated 1848, is built in the Simple Round-Headed style with a short-wall entry plan and tall small-pane windows. Horeb is now Grade 2 Listed.

RCAHMW, June 2010

Horeb Welsh Baptist Chapel was built in 1848 by John Jenkins as a sister chapel to his ministry in Hengoed. The original building is a square plan gable-ended building with the entrance on the long wall as opposed to the more usual gable end. It is a simple design, with two tall, round-arched small-pane windows to the front. The Chapel interior has a three-sided gallery supported by iron posts, with the original panelled box pews facing the pulpit on the rear wall. 
In the early 1960s, a large Community Hall extension was added to the rear of the Chapel. It is a single storey cross-gabled structure that widens at the north end, forming an uneven T-shape, built in red brick in stretcher bond with a corrugated asbestos roof. 

Reference: Report of an Archaeological Building Recording by Archaeology Wales in 2021, Report No. 2040.

RCAHMW, 2024.