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
11426
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/10/1978
Date of Amendment
13/01/1988
Name of Property
Merthyr Christian Centre
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Community
Town
Town
Locality
Thomastown
Easting
305197
Northing
206247
Street Side
Location
On an elevated site against the hillside with gabled front closing the view up Church Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built as a Synagogue, 1872-5, in heavy Northern Gothic style.
Exterior
Snecked rubble facings with ashlar bands and dressings; slate roofs with red tiled ridges and finials. Crowning gable with polygonal finials and narrow louvred openings. 5-light window with lancets and blocked lights over 3-storey transverse n ex. Narrow entrance gable, with plate-traceried window under scissor-braced bargeboards, flanked by two 2-storey polygonal staircase turrets with conical roofs on eaves brackets, narrow windows with stone lintels. Double flight of steps with stone piers, iron balustrade (partly missing) and iron lamp standards rises to gabled doorway with dripstone.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included primarily for historic interest as the oldest remaining Synagogue building in Wales.
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