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
11470
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/08/1975
Date of Amendment
13/01/1988
Name of Property
Zion Chapel (Capel Seion)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Community
Town
Town
Locality
Easting
305231
Northing
205862
Street Side
Location
Built across the steep slope with frontage forward to road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Rebuilt 1841 (tablet on front).
Exterior
Severe 3-bay Neo-Classical pedimented facade. Coursed ashlar, blocking-course to outer bays, moulded cornice, wide pilasters to centre, banded quoins, sill-band. Hipped slate roof with ventilator. Arched first-floor and keyblocked ground-floor windows with fixed small-pane glazing. Recessed tablet over arched central doorway with attached Tuscan columns in angles, glazed fanlight, double panelled doors. Area railings raised on coped stonework terrace.
4-window rendered side elevations with sash windows on two levels, arched upper openings with intersecting glazing bars.
Interior
Low slated and rubble former school-room attached at right-angles to left rear; reached along passage with ironwork gate.
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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