14816

 

II  

Designated  

10/08/1994  

10/08/1994  

Miners Welfare Hall  

 

Carmarthenshire  

Ammanford  

 

 

262855  

212298  

 

Situated behind Miners Welfare Club and alongside churchyard.  

Recreational  

 

Circa 1935 cinema by J Owen Parry of Ammanford, built for the Miners Welfare Club.  

Red brick with imitation-stone terracotta dressings and slate hipped roof with two ridge ventilators. Large scale, single-storey with SE end facade. Centre is projected with two outer panelled brick piers framing two fine fluted Corinthian columns in antis and centre long aedicule window with metal glazing bars. Window has moulded surround, pediment on consoles and moulded sill with flat surround slightly raised from brickwork. Broad two-step band beneath window over full width opening, now with altered doors but original outer pilasters. (Old photographs show a metal illuminated canopy). Finely detailed main entablature, the frieze with long outer panels and seven square centre panels, the outer ones with rosettes, the inner three recessed with small tilting lights. Big cornice and slightly ridged blocking course. Recessed behind is a hipped projection from roofslope. Flanking the centre are plain long narrow lights over a pair of small blocked floor window, imitation stone plinth, raised red brick angle quoins, minimal brick frieze continuing line of lower part of main entablature and raised imitation-stone broad eaves band continuing line of cornice. No overhang to roof. Side elevations: Very long with the plinth, brick frieze and eaves band continued around. Centre is recessed in one large area with imitation stone frieze of five sets of 1-3-1 recessed small square lights over the five large further-recessed panels, the outer ones with doorways in plain imitation stone surrounds and octagonal brick-framed ventilators over. Outermost bays have imitation-stone framed oval lights, above long openings, framed in imitation stone.  

Inserted ceiling, deep balcony survives, and from balcony level some plasterwork to pilasters and broad bands to shallow-curved ceiling are visible. Also some plaster decoration remains in first floor foyer, pilasters and moulded arches.  

Included as a powerful example of inter-war architecture and as the most prominent memorial of the coal-mining history in the area.