Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
19048
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/11/1997
Date of Amendment
13/11/1997
Name of Property
Zoar Chapel Vestry
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Coychurch Higher
Town
Locality
Rhiwceiliog
Easting
297234
Northing
184333
Street Side
Location
Small vestry immediately W of Soar Chapel and within the same curtilage.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Said to have been a venue for itinerant meetings of the Calvinistic Methodist community before the erection of Soar Chapel in 1876. Later on, it was used as a shelter for homeless people. There is said to be a date tablet attached to the building, now rendered over. The building is not shown on the 1842 Tithe Map, but the first chapel on the site was constructed in 1851.
Exterior
Small simple single-storey range. Rendered and pebble-dashed under a slate roof, with stone stack to W gable. The front elevation contains a wood planked door at the E end with 2 windows to its L, both 12-pane sashes with stone sills. There are no openings to the rear or the E gable end. To the W is a small lean-to, set back and with a corrugated asbestos-cement roof. It has a C20 wood planked door to the front and small light to the W.
Interior
Simple undivided interior.
Reason for designation
Listed for its group value with Soar Chapel, and for its historic interest as a being a base for itinerant meetings of the Community before the erection of the chapel.
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