Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
Old St. Mellons, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St Mellons, Cardiff, Old St. Mellons, designated on 10 June 1977.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 10 June 1977
- Locality
- St Mellons
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Old St. Mellons
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.52423, -3.11291
- Cadw reference
- 13923
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)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 263 Cardiff (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 110. Cardiff & Mouth of the Severn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Side-on to the main thoroughfare within a small walled enclosure incorporating iron gate with heavy caps to the gate-piers.
History
Built as Soar Welsh Independent Chapel c 1840. Shown with burial ground to rear on OS map of 1880.
Exterior
Small chapel. Of rendered stone painted in white with black detailing; shallow-pitched hipped Welsh slate roof with bracketed eaves cornice; bands at impost and sill levels to both front and side elevations. Side wall facade with 3 tall round-headed arches with shorter round-headed windows inserted within the 2 end blockings; archivolts and keystones. Small gabled porch wing against gable end also with bracketed eaves; round-headed doorway with renewed doors facing street; impost band returns to gable-end elevation curving over a now blocked window with sill. Wall extends to form a small entrance courtyard; thick rubble wall with later brick piers, pyramidal coping and iron gate with slender spear finials.
Reason for designation
Included as a small chapel in the early-mid C19 village centre of Old St Mellons; group value with the war memorial, the White Hart PH and the Bluebell Inn.
Nearby in the register
- War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Bethania Evangelical ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The White Hart PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- Base of churchyard cross in St Mellons churchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.