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
11451
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/08/1975
Date of Amendment
13/01/1988
Name of Property
High Street Baptist Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Community
Town
Town
Locality
Easting
304922
Northing
205997
Street Side
Location
On a detached site midway down the pedestrianised section of High Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built 1840.
Exterior
Bold neo-classical front of 3 bays, painted render with advanced, pedimented centre, parapets to side bays, gable crucifix. Bracket cornice, band course under recessed "High Street Chapel" tablet, deep cornice over banded rusticated ground-floor. Pediments to outer first-floor windows with leaded glazing, plain ground-floor windows. Monumental central entrance with plain arch to later vaulted porch breaking through cornice, detached Doric columns to jambs, twin pilasters flank segmental inner doorway.
One-bay return flanks in similar style, then 4-bay simple walls with plain bands and round headed upper windows with tracery.
Interior
Fine 2-storey interior with cast-iron columns supported 3-sided panelled gallery, arcade treatment at gallery level. Great platform with pulpit, big seat etc to inner wall.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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