Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Salem Chapel
Aberdare West, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 10 January 1991
- Locality
- Robertstown
- Town
- Aberdare
- Community
- Aberdare West
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.72060, -3.44666
- Cadw reference
- 10874
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road behind burial ground and reached by railed path. At the NE end of the street.
History
Dated 1841; built to replace the timber building erected when the chapel was founded in 1836. Cost £500. Remodelled in 1899 but retaining the earlier long wall facade.
Exterior
2-storey, 4-window front, pebbledash ground floor, cement render above; tall hipped slate roof with wide eaves and tiled cresting with hooked finials. Round arched headed openings including horned small pane sashes with marginal glazing bars. Paired boarded central doors with fanlights. Brace plate to left. The 1899 vestry is to left, set back. 2-window similar rear; vestry stepped forward with 3 horned sash windows.
Interior
Galleried interior with canted ceiling, boarded to the edge; circular ventilators to each corner and central plaster rose. Panelled gallery front carried on fluted cast iron columns with foliage capitals. Classical detail to set fawr with paired columns; round arched classical 'reredos' behind with painted pilasters and keystone.
Nearby in the register
- Vestry attached to Salem ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Tramroad East of Robert's Town Bridge, AberdareTramwayunder 1 mi
- Cynon Valley main Store Building (formerly the Casting House at Gadly's IronworksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Gadlys Ironworks (Remains of Blast Furnace)Ironworksunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.