Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old Siloh Chapel (English)
Landore, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Community
- Landore
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64429, -3.93780
- Cadw reference
- 11701
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
By roadside immediately W of viaduct on main Swansea - Cardiff railway line.
History
Built 1829, enlarged 1840.
Exterior
Cement rendered classical facade, 4 window bays under pediment. Brick and rubble construction, slate roof, formerly slate-hung sides. "Siloh" tablet with inscribed open book to pediment, banded quoins; architraves to round-headed openings, tall centre pair with keyblocks linked to main cornice. Doorways to outer bays with pedimented doorcases, 6-panel doors, Gothic area railings. Gable end of hall to right, octagonal chimney stacks.
Boarded up at time of inspection (Autumn 1985).
Nearby in the register
- Old Siloh Chapel (English) Sunday SchoolReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Parish Church of St PaulReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- School House at New Siloh (Congregational) ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Landore New QuayQuayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.