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Town's 215-year-old chapel goes to auction for £1

Paul PigottBBC Wales
News imagePaul Fosh Auctions An aerial photo of a large stone chapel with a weathered slate roof, tall arched windows and scaffolding across the front. Overgrown trees and shrubs surround the building, with terraced houses, gardens and parked vehicles across the street behind the church. You can just make out Ebenezer written beneath the peak of the roof.Paul Fosh Auctions
The Grade II listed Ebenezer Chapel in Aberdare once held up to 900 worshippers

A 19th Century revivalist chapel is going to auction with a guide price of just a £1.

The Grade II listed Ebenezer Chapel once held up to 900 worshippers but the building, with its long curved pews and high arched windows, was last used in 2009 and is now overgrown and derelict.

Paul Fosh Auctions said the "substantial detached property" in Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, had partial renovation work done but its planning permission for conversion to five flats had now lapsed.

"This large former chapel which also has a domestic-sized single garage is in the sought-after location of Trecynon," said auctioneer Sean Roper.

News imagePaul Fosh Auctions An inside view of the church with curved rows of wooden pews, tall arched windows and grey mottled peeling walls. Debris, ladders and building materials cover the lower floor and torn green netting hangs from the crumbling ceiling.Paul Fosh Auctions
The 19th Century chapel is going to auction with a guide price of just a £1

Roper said: "The Grade II listed chapel has two storeys of accommodation and sits in a sizeable but now overgrown plot with potential access from the front and rear of the site."

The site is about 0.23 acres and sits amid "well-established residential housing" about half a mile away from the town centre.

The property goes up for auction starting on 8 October.

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