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
87810
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/11/2020
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Columbarium at Glyntaff Cemetery
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Pontypridd
Town
Locality
Glyntaff
Easting
308681
Northing
189197
Street Side
Location
On the NW side of the cemetery chapels, just inside the entrance to the cemetery grounds.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
Modern
History
The columbarium was built in the 1930s to receive cinerary urns from the adjoining crematorium. Glyntaff was not only the first crematorium in Wales, opened in 1924, but the only crematorium in Wales until the second half of the C20. People who lived across a wide geographical area of S Wales were cremated at Glyntaff and their urns and tablets deposited in the columbarium. The building was restored in the 1990s, when doors were inserted to the central lobby.
Exterior
A single-storey building of coursed rock-faced Pennant sandstone, with dressings and central bay of reconstituted stone, under a roof which is hipped to the front, with graded grey slates to the front slope, but with darker N Wales slates to the rear. The front is divided into 7 unequal bays by battered buttresses and has simple pointed windows in surrounds with sunk spandrels. The central bay is beneath a coped parapet and the entrance set between pilaster strips. The four-centred doorway, with prominent keystone, has modern half-glazed doors but was originally open. At the rear there are outer gabled bays (the R-hand, W side at a splayed angle) which both have two 4-centred arches and were added in later in the C20. Between them is a colonnade under an outshut roof, of 7 bays with 4-centred arches. Tablets are attached to the walls of the colonnade, which also has a tile floor.
Interior
The entrance lobby has a mosaic floor, boarded ceiling and doors with vertical ribs leading to the W and E sides of the building. Both sides have a narrow central corridor with tile floor, and are divided into bays by pointed arches, all of plaster under a plaster ceiling. The W side has urns in niches, where the E side has commemorative tablets attached to the walls.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural and historic interest as a rare example in Wales of a columbarium, built at the first crematorium to be opened in Wales, which retains original external character and interior detail.
It is not the intention to list the cemetery chapels and crematorium as these are not of special architectural or historic interest.
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