Ely Methodist Church, Cowbridge Road West, Caerau, Cardiff

Property description

The listing confirms the Church is built of Pennant stone with Bath stone ashlar dressings and red tile roofs. Free late Gothic style with some Arts and Crafts influences. Gabled facade divided into three by ashlar-faced buttresses, coped gable and large cross finial. Ashlar flush bands and sill and springing level of main window, narrow vent in gable apex. Broad 4-light centre Gothic traceried window, cambered-headed overall with cusped main lights and three cusped top-lights. Whole surround is flat headed. The ground floor has a broad triple composition of pyramid-roofed single storey wings each side of a Gothic porch flanked by lobbies. Porch is ashlar, gabled with big cross-gabled flanking piers, panel tracery in main gable with cross finial over, smaller finials each side on caps of projecting piers. Broad Tudor-arched moulded doorway, with florid decoration in spandrels. Heavy double panelled doors. Flanking flat roofed lobbies to either side, each having a 3-light mullioned window, the lights are cusped and cambered-headed overall. The outer single storey wings each have a pyramid hipped roof with finial (missing on right wing), front flat-headed 3-light mullioned window, heads at eaves, and buttresses at angles. Sides are similar with 2 x 2-light windows divided by pillar. Windows have leaded lights with some coloured glass.
Sides have lean-to aisle and clerestory design before projecting double-gable 'transept', plain windows beyond and hipped end to main roof. Aisle has 2 x 3-light similar windows under eaves, and clerestorey has single 3-light window below main eaves. Transepts have slate roofs, coped gables and ashlar in apex double gablet, panel-traceried as on front porch. Clasping angle buttresses and paired long 2-light traceried windows with segmental-pointed heads. To left of east transept, pair of plain windows with C20 replacement lights. Stuccoed rear elevation with modern alterations.

Location

Ely Methodist Church, Cowbridge Road West, Caerau, Cardiff view on Google maps

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