Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
22493
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/10/1999
Date of Amendment
14/10/1999
Name of Property
Front Walls and railings at Saron Congregational Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Blaenau Gwent
Community
Tredegar
Town
Locality
Tredegar
Easting
313999
Northing
208708
Street Side
E
Location
Chapel is prominently located on the E side of Park Row, strikingly terminating vista looking W up Market Street from The Circle. Walls and railings set in front of chapel and schoolroom.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Later C19. Chapel built 1858 by Rev. Thomas Thomas of Landore, renowned chapel architect and Congregational minister. The first chapel was built 1819, rebuilt 1828. The 1828 chapel survives as the present schoolroom.
Exterior
Central ashlar piers with pyramid copings: paired iron gates with spear finials. Flanking lengths of railings each side, some eight metres in length. Railings have spear finials, set on low rubble walls with slab copings. Terminating ashlar piers with pyramid copings. Outer flanking lengths of rubble walling, some ten metres long. Right-hand length has stone coping, left length has rough partly cemented coping. Higher return rubble-built wall to right end, forming N boundary.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with Saron Chapel.
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