15655

 

II  

Designated  

30/06/1994  

15/08/2000  

Chapel House  

 

Rhondda Cynon Taff  

Pont-y-Clun  

Pontyclun  

Miskin  

304602  

180772  

W  

On a corner, set below a minor road from Miskin village and W of main railway line.  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

 

Built c1860 and opened in October of that year. The site was then known as New Mill. Despite the date the design of this low, long-wall fronted chapel recalls that of the traditional rural chapel rather than the more common C19 gabled fronts. The chapel closed c1994 and was converted to a dwelling.  

A 2-storey former chapel on a steep site with one storey facing the street but 2 storeys behind. Rubble stone walls retain some render, while the slate roof has a brick stack to the R. Facing the street are 3 horned-sash windows, with a lower gabled porch L of centre, in which the half-lit panelled door is on the R side. The L gable end has 2 sash windows in the upper storey and a projection against the lower storey. Behind, both storeys have sash windows, the lower storey being the former Sunday School.  

Not inspected, but said to retain a coved and ribbed ceiling and a plastered arch behind the former pulpit.  

Listed, notwithstanding conversion to a dwelling, for its architectural interest as a rare surviving mid C19 rural chapel building retaining original character.