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Summary Description
Reference Number
15302
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/02/1995
Date of Amendment
09/02/1995
Name of Property
Zion Baptist Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Torfaen
Community
Blaenavon
Town
Locality
Forge Side
Easting
324465
Northing
208583
Street Side
S
Location
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Exterior
15302
Situated on the north-west edge of the Forge Side residential area, set back from the road behind a stone wall.
History: Built in 1875 at a cost of ú650 to serve the growing population of Forge Side. The English Baptist Chapel on Broad Street was the mother church. In the mid 1880's a schoolroom was added. The materials for this were given gratis to the church by the Blaenavon Iron and Steel Company. It is a well preserved example typifying late C19 Valleys' chapel architecture.
Exterior: Constructed on a rectangular plan in rubble stone, built to courses, with brick dressings. The main gable facade has three bays, on one storey. A school room is to the rear. Main elevation is gable facade with stone plinth and brick quoins. All openings are dressed with brick and have semi-circular arch with brick keystone. The central doorway has a wooden panelled door set back. Above the door and on either side are three similar tall small pane sash windows, with angled stone sills and intersecting glazing bars. Above the upper window is a plaque. The side elevations are rendered and windows have modern glazing bars. Simple wooden barge-boards and pitched slate roof.
Interior: Original features include the pulpit with its pair of stairs, baptismal pool in front and wooden pews, no gallery.
Listed as a later 19th century chapel with well-preserved historic character.
Reference: Gwent County Record Office, D.2174.75, 'History of Zion Baptist Chapel, Forge Side'.
Interior
Reason for designation
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