Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church Hall at Capel Tabernacl
Park, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1988
- Locality
- Morganstown
- Community
- Park
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.75077, -3.38112
- Cadw reference
- 11395
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
Occupying a prominent corner site facing down Vulcan Road, Morgantown.
History
Dated 1896. Designed by George Morgan, architect of Carmarthen. Cost £4,650. Mixed Romanesque and classical style.
Exterior
Wide gabled front with snecked facings, pale freestone dressings, slate roof behind kneelered parapet with ball finial. Triple ventilators in banded frame over large first-floor arch flanked by arched two-light windows; hoodmoulds, nook shafts, diamond glazing. 3-window centre with blind thermal window treatment to head, porch gable rises through sill; enriched arch-rings and nook-shafts to double doors with traceried fanlight. Stepped triple windows light gallery stairs to outer bays.
5-window flank elevations and transverse hall range uphill to rear in similar style. Good area railings with twin gates and gatepiers topped by lamp-standards.
Interior
Interior said to have ribbed barrel-vault with white clouds.
Nearby in the register
- Capel Tabernacl (Welsh Baptist Church)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Vulcan House including attached rear range, and forecourt wall and gateDomesticunder 1 mi
- Catholic Church of St Mary including attached presbyteryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- District Education Office of Mid-Glamorgan County Council (YMCA)Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.