Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
4 Chapel Row
Park, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 22 August 1975
- Locality
- Georgetown
- Community
- Park
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.75041, -3.38542
- Cadw reference
- 11412
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
Situated in open ground to E of Omnibus Depot and backing on to River Taff.
History
Octagonal chapel opened 1805, converted to Storehouse by 1836 Survey Plan; row of houses added ca 1825.
Exterior
2-storey terraced row with taller remains of polygonal structure at N end. Uniform rubble frontage with some rough dressings; continuous slate roof, hipped to S end, brick stacks. 2-window fronts (wider at S end), cemented reveals under voussoir lintels (painted to No 1), modern small-pane sash windows. Central 6-panel doors (offset to No 5). Low walled forecourts with plain cappings link to splayed outer wall of former chapel/warehouse forward on left; pale quoins and round-arched window openings.
To W of Chapel Row is a reconstructed section of canal with ironwork frame of the (relocated) Rhydycar Iron Bridge.
Reason for designation
No 4 Chapel Row is celebrated as birthplace in 1841 of the famous composer Joseph Parry.
Nearby in the register
- 5 Chapel RowDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Chapel RowDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Chapel RowDomesticunder 1 mi
- Iron Canal Bridge from RhydycarBridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.