Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
13923
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/06/1977
Date of Amendment
31/08/2000
Name of Property
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Old St. Mellons
Town
Cardiff
Locality
St Mellons
Easting
322886
Northing
181178
Street Side
E
Location
Side-on to the main thoroughfare within a small walled enclosure incorporating iron gate with heavy caps to the gate-piers.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built as Soar Welsh Independent Chapel c 1840. Shown with burial ground to rear on OS map of 1880.
Exterior
Small chapel. Of rendered stone painted in white with black detailing; shallow-pitched hipped Welsh slate roof with bracketed eaves cornice; bands at impost and sill levels to both front and side elevations. Side wall facade with 3 tall round-headed arches with shorter round-headed windows inserted within the 2 end blockings; archivolts and keystones. Small gabled porch wing against gable end also with bracketed eaves; round-headed doorway with renewed doors facing street; impost band returns to gable-end elevation curving over a now blocked window with sill. Wall extends to form a small entrance courtyard; thick rubble wall with later brick piers, pyramidal coping and iron gate with slender spear finials.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a small chapel in the early-mid C19 village centre of Old St Mellons; group value with the war memorial, the White Hart PH and the Bluebell Inn.
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