11452

 

II  

Designated  

22/08/1975  

13/01/1988  

Zoar Chapel (Welsh Congregational)  

 

Merthyr Tydfil  

Town  

 

 

304970  

206445  

 

Set back to rear of Nos 3, 4 and 5 Pontmorlais and reached by a gated lane shared with the adjoining Council Offices.  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

 

Opened March 1842. Preceding chapel of 1823 pulled down by the Rev B Owen who "undertook the drawing of the plans and superintending of the erection of the new building". Cost £2,300.  

Large, rectangular rubble-built chapel with entrances in symmetrical 5-bay N front, advanced end bays. Hipped slate roof, wide eaves. Arched upper floor windows with fixed, ironwork, Gothic glazing bars, cambered ground-floor heads with sash windows. 3-bay entrance loggia (inserted ?) with bracket cornice, plain capitals to turned columns; glazed lean-to canopy. 6-bay W elevation with ironwork frames to ground-floor windows; slate-hung S elevation with gabled 2-storey projection.  

Galleried interior with ribbed plaster ceiling, organ, pulpit and balustraded stairs to S end. Bushy foliage to fluted cast-iron columns, stencilled cornice, panelled galleried fronts with fluted pilasters; raked box-pews etc.