Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11470
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/08/1975
Date of Amendment
13/01/1988
Name of Property
Zion Chapel (Capel Seion)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Community
Town
Town
Locality
Easting
305231
Northing
205862
Street Side
Location
Built across the steep slope with frontage forward to road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Rebuilt 1841 (tablet on front).
Exterior
Severe 3-bay Neo-Classical pedimented facade. Coursed ashlar, blocking-course to outer bays, moulded cornice, wide pilasters to centre, banded quoins, sill-band. Hipped slate roof with ventilator. Arched first-floor and keyblocked ground-floor windows with fixed small-pane glazing. Recessed tablet over arched central doorway with attached Tuscan columns in angles, glazed fanlight, double panelled doors. Area railings raised on coped stonework terrace.
4-window rendered side elevations with sash windows on two levels, arched upper openings with intersecting glazing bars.
Interior
Low slated and rubble former school-room attached at right-angles to left rear; reached along passage with ironwork gate.
Reason for designation
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