Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Zion Chapel (Capel Seion)
Town, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 22 August 1975
- Community
- Town
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.74342, -3.37401
- Cadw reference
- 11470
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
Built across the steep slope with frontage forward to road.
History
Rebuilt 1841 (tablet on front).
Exterior
Severe 3-bay Neo-Classical pedimented facade. Coursed ashlar, blocking-course to outer bays, moulded cornice, wide pilasters to centre, banded quoins, sill-band. Hipped slate roof with ventilator. Arched first-floor and keyblocked ground-floor windows with fixed small-pane glazing. Recessed tablet over arched central doorway with attached Tuscan columns in angles, glazed fanlight, double panelled doors. Area railings raised on coped stonework terrace.
4-window rendered side elevations with sash windows on two levels, arched upper openings with intersecting glazing bars.
Interior
Low slated and rubble former school-room attached at right-angles to left rear; reached along passage with ironwork gate.
Nearby in the register
- Schoolroom at Zion ChapelEducationunder 1 mi
- 9 Coedcae'r CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8 Coedcae'r CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- 7 Coedcae'r CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.