Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Trinity Methodist Church
Adamsdown, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 5 June 1980
- Community
- Adamsdown
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48647, -3.16040
- Cadw reference
- 14098
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
Between Four Elms Road and Piercefield Place.
History
Built 1896-1897. By Ingall and Sons of Birmingham. Remodelled 1978 by Wyn Thomas & Partners (porch to Piercefield Place, horizontal internal subdivision).
Exterior
Elaborate chapel in mixed Early English and Decorated styles. Snecked Pennant stone with bathstone dressings, slate roofs. Gabled entrance front facing Four Elms Road has deep 2-storey arch with stiff leaf capitals enclosing rose window; below, entrance doorway with 3 orders of shafts with stiffleaf caps; 2-light window to each side. To L, polygonal bell turret with open-work spire, trefoil windows, gargoyles. To R, elaborate tower with bathstone steeple, polygonal bellstage, turrets with pinnacles, and stepped buttresses to 2-stage porch tower, doorway to Piercefield Place. Elevation to Piercefield Place has modern vestibule and to R transept with 5-light Geometrical window; to R of this, vestry (bathstone ashlar), pinnacled buttresses, trefoil parapet, window of 3 cusped lights. Polygonal apse behind vestry.
Interior
Subdivided horizontally in 1978 remodelling; double hammerbeam roof, well-lit apse with coupled colonettes and stiff-leaf capitals. Stained glass in apse by Swaine & Co; angels representing virtues in rose window.
Reason for designation
Listed as elaborate late C19 chapel with prominent spire on important site on approach to city centre. Group value with adjacent Elms Centre.
Nearby in the register
- Elms CentreReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 64 Newport RoadCommercialunder 1 mi
- Mile Stone at LibraryTransportunder 1 mi
- Roath Branch LibraryEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.