Carnowen Presbyterian Church

Detached three-bay double-height gable-fronted Presbyterian Church, built 1868, having pedimented entrance front (north) and with engaged stucco classical pilasters (on square-plan) to the corners of the front elevation and flanking main doorway. Single-nay single-storey vestry to the rear (south). Interior altered with second floor added. Pitched artificial slate roof (fibre-cement) with raised rendered verges to gable ends, projecting eaves course, and cast-iron rainwater goods; pitched natural slate roof to vestry with rendered chimneystack to the south gable end. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course with painted block-and-start quoins to the corners of the rear elevation (south). Stucco Doric pilasters, and stucco pediment with plain cornice and blank frieze to entrance front. Date and name plaque (on rectangular-plan) above door incised ‘Carnone Presbyterian Church Erected 1868’. Round-headed window openings to the front elevation, flanking doorcase, having raised rendered shouldered architraved surrounds with keystone detail, stone sills on brackets, and multi-pane timber windows with margin glazing bars. Three-graded round-headed window openings over main doorway to front elevation having render architraved surrounds stone sills on brackets, and multi-pane timber windows with margin glazing bars. Round-headed window openings to the side elevations having stone sills and replacement windows. Square-headed window opening to vestry having six-over-six-pane timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed doorway to the front elevation having timber panelled double-doors, plain overlight, and with render pilasters having foliate consoles brackets supporting cornice over. Round-headed recess behind altar; timber boxed pews to interior with hinged doors. Set back from road in own grounds adjacent to Carnowen Crossroads. Bounded on road-frontage to the north by roughcast rendered boundary wall with smooth rendered plinth and surrounds creating panels, and with painted stone coping. Gateway to the north comprising a pair of smooth rendered ruled-and-lined gate piers (on square-plan) having replacement gates. Graveyard to site with collection of mainly nineteenth and twentieth-century gravemarkers.