Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Wesley Methodist Church
Town, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pontmorlais, Town, Merthyr Tydfil, designated on 13 January 1988.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1988
- Locality
- Pontmorlais
- Community
- Town
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.74908, -3.37726
- Cadw reference
- 11454
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 231 Merthyr Tydfil (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back slightly to right of Nos 12 and 12A Pontmorlais.
Exterior
1862 date. Imposing 3-bay late classical facade with central pedimented and pilastered bay. Channelled rustication to ashlar ground-floor, cement render above (some detailing simplified). Frieze inscribed "WESLEY CHAPEL". Pilastered, 3-light, stepped centre window with moulded architraves and frond lunettes, marginal glazing-bars. Scallop-shell lunettes over arched ground-floor windows with aprons. Double centre doors under radiating fanlight. Rubble flank elevation with brickwork dressings, slate roof.
Interior
Interior recently subdivided.
Nearby in the register
- Gates & Gatepiers at Entry to Zoar ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Zoar Chapel (Welsh Congregational)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- District Education Office of Mid-Glamorgan County Council (YMCA)Commercialunder 1 mi
- 14 New Castle StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.