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
23089
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/03/2000
Date of Amendment
26/11/2003
Name of Property
Railings at Seion Fforest Calvinistic Methodist Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Blaenhonddan
Town
Neath
Locality
Aberdulais
Easting
277369
Northing
199648
Street Side
E
Location
Chapel facing S on the N side of the valley of the Afon Nedd, some 50m N of the junction of Forest Hill and the A465. Railings on roadside and to S of chapel.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Late C19 or early C20 iron railings in front of chapel of 1860. Posts marked E.T. Raybould & Son, Workington, older rails on rubble stone wall on roadside.
Exterior
Along roadside shorter length of low iron railings on rockfaced stone walls. Two brick cross-gabled entrance piers with iron posts and plain gates. Along chapel front terrace are taller railings with alternate trilobe finials, the railings in sections bolted between 13 Corinthian column posts with urn finials.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Capel Seion Fforest.
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