Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Navigation Colliery Chimney
Crumlin, Caerphilly, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 27 January 1982
- Locality
- Navigation Colliery Crumlin
- Community
- Crumlin
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.68231, -3.14252
- Cadw reference
- 1890
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
In the centre of the main Revetment Wall, between the N and S Winding Engine Houses and close to the Workshops and Store, and Lamp Room to rear.
History
Navigation Colliery Crumlin was built by the firm of Partridge Jones and Company between 1907 and 1911. The firm was one of the largest coal combines in S Wales, owning 9 collieries in the Gwent valleys. Navigation Colliery was a show-pit of the period with high quality buildings and up-to-date machinery. One of the earliest collieries in S Wales to be built in brick rather than local stone with brick dressings. Closed 1967 and disused since.
Exterior
A very tall, slender and tapering square chimney of high quality red engineering brick with a stepped brick cornice and plinth.
Reason for designation
Listed II* as an important building in this nearly complete colliery complex of national importance. Group value with other listed former colliery buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Former Navigation Colliery Lamp RoomGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Former Navigation Colliery Workshops and StoresIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Former Navigation Colliery North Winding Engine HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Former Navigation Colliery South Winding Engine HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.