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
10897
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/02/1988
Date of Amendment
18/02/2003
Name of Property
Church of St Margaret
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Mountain Ash
Town
Mountain Ash
Locality
Mountain Ash
Easting
304752
Northing
199390
Street Side
Location
At S end of Dyffryn Road set back from junction with New Road (A4059); Campell Terrace to rear.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Original building of apse, nave and W aisle 1860-2 designed by JP Seddon (Prichard and Seddon) architect of Llandaff and London, for J. Bruce Pryce, father of the first Lord Aberdare. Enlarged with E aisle and vestry 1883-4 by John Prichard; new chancel, vestry and tower added by E Bruce Vaughan, architect of Cardiff, in 1898.
Exterior
Complex High Victorian parish church orientated N and S in Early English style with some later C13 style detailing. Plan form of chancel, E organ chamber and transept, W vestries with tower in angle, aisled nave and NW porch. Snecked rubble masonry, pale freestone dressings, parapet gables with seatings for finials, slate roofs. Tall buttressed S front with niche containing St Margaret's statue to gable; wide 5-light window with cusped lancets in echelon, hoodmould, spandrel paterae, stepped sill band. Square SW tower with short pyramidal spire and weathervane behind crenellated parapet, Y-tracery bell-openings, polygonal stair turret. Lateral gables with plate tracery windows. Decorated tracery in finial surround to E side window. Twin lancets to aisles, NW porch with elaborately carved tympanum of Christ in a mandorla, angel supporters, crocketted arch over,roundel in apex, cusped panelling to double doors. Simple N front with large cusped oculus over door.
Interior
Interior has boarded and ribbed waggon roof to chancel, foliage paterae and angel supporters. Hood moulds, nook shafts, stiff-leaf capitals to windows and head stops, some portraits, to lateral arches. Arcaded end wall with 5-bay tabernacled reredos of 1904 designed by Bruce Vaughan, containing seated figures; triple arch sedilia. Tripartite responds with fillets to tall chancel arch. 6-bay nave without clerestory (wide bay second from E), round piers with foliage and scallop capitals, double-chamfered arches; unmoulded treatment to W bays, plain waggon roof, lean-to aisles. Elaborate furnishings include pulpit and lectern of 1897-8; stone font of 1905; organ of 1914 (remodelled 1952 to designs by Sir Percy Thomas). Fine stained glass includes chancel windows of 1900 by Robert J Newbery of London commemorating John Nixon principal colliery owner in the Cynon valley; other windows by Mary Lowndes 1917 (N transept), James Clarke 1916 (N aisle NE), AJ Davies of the Bromsgrove Guild 1930 (N aisle).
Reason for designation
Listed as a Victorian church with an interesting development history with contributions from leading South Wales architects in C19.
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