Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gadlys 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
- Trecynon
- Community
- Aberdare West
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.71806, -3.45197
- Cadw reference
- 10891
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
On sloping site stepped up from adjoining cottages.
History
Dated l864; cost ú675.
Exterior
Classical 3-bay front with pediment treatment; cement render with plinth. Slate roof with tiled cresting. Datestone to top; entablature and cornice over Ionic pilasters. Round arched gallery windows with sills, broader and segmental arched to centre over main entrance. Pilastered doorcase with deep entablature and double doors. Square headed flanking windows. Entablature and cornice continued along 3-window right hand side with one Ionic pilaster at the corner; similar windows, arched headed over square headed. The windows to the front and right hand side were boarded up at time of inspection (December l989) but are said to retain their glazing beneath. Glazing visible to left hand side, small pane sash windows, round arched with simple Gothic tracery over square headed with marginal bars. Deep coved band below eaves. Doors to basement. Staircase projects to rear.
Rubble forecourt wall with gate piers.
Interior
Disused at time of inspection (December l989) and interior not seen.
Nearby in the register
- Gates & Gate Piers, including Flanking Railings at SE (Main) Entrance to Aberdare ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pedestal and Statue of Lord Merthyr in Aberdare ParkCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Former Calcining Furnaces 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.