Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
10851
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/01/1991
Date of Amendment
10/01/1991
Name of Property
Hall attached to Siloa Capel Y Annibynwyr
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Aberdare East
Town
Locality
Easting
299986
Northing
202577
Street Side
Location
Near the western end of the street, facing N.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built in l844; rebuilt in l855; historically one of the foremost Congregational chapels in Wales.
Exterior
Simple classical 3-bay gabled front; rendered with end pilaster strips, stringcourse to middle and cornice giving light pediment treatment. Oval date plaque to gable. Slate roof and wide boarded eaves. Round arched headed windows with keystones and fluted architraves. Horned sashes with marginal glazing bars. Similar style round arched headed entrance to centre; double panelled doors with 5-pane semi-circular fanlight.
4-bay side elevations with camber headed sashes in square openings. Stepped down at the rear and with a steeper roof is the chapel hall with small pane sashes to the sides. Cement render rear gable facing the river with tiny octagonal chimney stack. Round arched and boarded gable window with flanking circular 4-pane windows; 4 pane sashes below; projecting stones on the SW corner suggests that some further structure formerly abutted here.
Forecourt has rubble piers with freestone caps swept up into ball finials at the gated entrance; the gates have 'Capel Siloa' to lock bar; the pier has commemorative tablet. Iron railings; some uprights are barley twist.
Interior
Galleried interior with herringbone boarded ceiling with roses; end bays had different ornament (now removed to front end). Raked gallery with panelled and bracketed front carried on cast iron columns. Simple classical 'set fawr' with quatrefoil punched newels capped by ball finials. Pitch pine furnishings; seats approximately 900. Attached vestry/hall with ceiling ventilators and central rose.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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