Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11426
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/10/1978
Date of Amendment
13/01/1988
Name of Property
Merthyr Christian Centre
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Community
Town
Town
Locality
Thomastown
Easting
305197
Northing
206247
Street Side
Location
On an elevated site against the hillside with gabled front closing the view up Church Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built as a Synagogue, 1872-5, in heavy Northern Gothic style.
Exterior
Snecked rubble facings with ashlar bands and dressings; slate roofs with red tiled ridges and finials. Crowning gable with polygonal finials and narrow louvred openings. 5-light window with lancets and blocked lights over 3-storey transverse n ex. Narrow entrance gable, with plate-traceried window under scissor-braced bargeboards, flanked by two 2-storey polygonal staircase turrets with conical roofs on eaves brackets, narrow windows with stone lintels. Double flight of steps with stone piers, iron balustrade (partly missing) and iron lamp standards rises to gabled doorway with dripstone.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included primarily for historic interest as the oldest remaining Synagogue building in Wales.
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