Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hermon Calvinistic Methodist Chapel
Tongwynlais, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 6 October 1977
- Locality
- Tongwynlais
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Tongwynlais
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.53099, -3.25151
- Cadw reference
- 13930
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
Near the centre of the village SW of the main village thoroughfare, set in walled yard with 3 iron gates, railings with spear finials and 5 piers.
History
Built 1860, renovated 1906. Conversion to house c 1998. In mid C19 the nearest Calvinistic Methodist chapels were Ebenezer Whitchurch and Bethel Morganstown. Cause first established in Tongwynlais in cottage in Queen Street. First building known as Y Deml (The Temple) was remodelled after 20 years with floor levelled and gallery constructed. Served the iron and tinplate works at Melingriffith. Started as a Welsh speaking chapel, eventually reluctantly transferring to English in 1923, its loyalty to the Welsh language causing financial hardship as congregations diminished.
Exterior
Small chapel converted to a house. Built of stone clad in scored render with long and short rock-faced quoins and some yellow brick to side and rear; Welsh slate roof with yellow brick lateral stack to left. Gable end frontage with renewed bargeboards, overhanging boarded eaves, a close-set pair of long pointed-arched windows with intersecting tracery, coloured glass and painted stone sills; above is the name and date plaque. Ground floor has doorways either side of windows with 6-panelled doors, margin glazed overlight and shallow swept pedimental heads (modern?). To each side and end is a single arched window over 2 storeys. Single storey Sunday School extension to rear has 6/2 pane sash windows and doorway with segmental-arched head .
Interior
Under conversion to dwelling.
Reason for designation
Included notwithstanding conversion to house as a mid C19 chapel retaining much of its external appearance from this time.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St Michael and All AngelsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ivy House FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Merthyr RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Merthyr RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.