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
13923
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/06/1977
Date of Amendment
31/08/2000
Name of Property
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Old St. Mellons
Town
Cardiff
Locality
St Mellons
Easting
322886
Northing
181178
Street Side
E
Location
Side-on to the main thoroughfare within a small walled enclosure incorporating iron gate with heavy caps to the gate-piers.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built as Soar Welsh Independent Chapel c 1840. Shown with burial ground to rear on OS map of 1880.
Exterior
Small chapel. Of rendered stone painted in white with black detailing; shallow-pitched hipped Welsh slate roof with bracketed eaves cornice; bands at impost and sill levels to both front and side elevations. Side wall facade with 3 tall round-headed arches with shorter round-headed windows inserted within the 2 end blockings; archivolts and keystones. Small gabled porch wing against gable end also with bracketed eaves; round-headed doorway with renewed doors facing street; impost band returns to gable-end elevation curving over a now blocked window with sill. Wall extends to form a small entrance courtyard; thick rubble wall with later brick piers, pyramidal coping and iron gate with slender spear finials.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a small chapel in the early-mid C19 village centre of Old St Mellons; group value with the war memorial, the White Hart PH and the Bluebell Inn.
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