Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
10874
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/01/1991
Date of Amendment
10/01/1991
Name of Property
Salem Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Aberdare West
Town
Locality
Robertstown
Easting
300165
Northing
203421
Street Side
Location
Set back from the road behind burial ground and reached by railed path. At the NE end of the street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Dated l841; built to replace the timber building erected when the chapel was founded in l836. Cost ú500. Remodelled in l899 but retaining the earlier long wall facade.
Exterior
2-storey, 4-window front, pebbledash ground floor, cement render above; tall hipped slate roof with wide eaves and tiled cresting with hooked finials. Round arched headed openings including horned small pane sashes with marginal glazing bars. Paired boarded central doors with fanlights. Brace plate to left. The l899 vestry is to left, set back. 2-window similar rear; vestry stepped forward with 3 horned sash windows.
Interior
Galleried interior with canted ceiling, boarded to the edge; circular ventilators to each corner and central plaster rose. Panelled gallery front carried on fluted cast iron columns with foliage capitals. Classical detail to set fawr with paired columns; round arched classical 'reredos' behind with painted pilasters and keystone.
Reason for designation
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