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
11452
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/08/1975
Date of Amendment
13/01/1988
Name of Property
Zoar Chapel (Welsh Congregational)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Community
Town
Town
Locality
Easting
304970
Northing
206445
Street Side
Location
Set back to rear of Nos 3, 4 and 5 Pontmorlais and reached by a gated lane shared with the adjoining Council Offices.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Opened March 1842. Preceding chapel of 1823 pulled down by the Rev B Owen who "undertook the drawing of the plans and superintending of the erection of the new building". Cost £2,300.
Exterior
Large, rectangular rubble-built chapel with entrances in symmetrical 5-bay N front, advanced end bays. Hipped slate roof, wide eaves. Arched upper floor windows with fixed, ironwork, Gothic glazing bars, cambered ground-floor heads with sash windows. 3-bay entrance loggia (inserted ?) with bracket cornice, plain capitals to turned columns; glazed lean-to canopy. 6-bay W elevation with ironwork frames to ground-floor windows; slate-hung S elevation with gabled 2-storey projection.
Interior
Galleried interior with ribbed plaster ceiling, organ, pulpit and balustraded stairs to S end. Bushy foliage to fluted cast-iron columns, stencilled cornice, panelled galleried fronts with fluted pilasters; raked box-pews etc.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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