Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Front Walls and railings at Saron Congregational Chapel
Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 14 October 1999
- Locality
- Tredegar
- Community
- Tredegar
- Unitary authority
- Blaenau Gwent
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77042, -3.24776
- Cadw reference
- 22493
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
Chapel is prominently located on the E side of Park Row, strikingly terminating vista looking W up Market Street from The Circle. Walls and railings set in front of chapel and schoolroom.
History
Later C19. Chapel built 1858 by Rev. Thomas Thomas of Landore, renowned chapel architect and Congregational minister. The first chapel was built 1819, rebuilt 1828. The 1828 chapel survives as the present schoolroom.
Exterior
Central ashlar piers with pyramid copings: paired iron gates with spear finials. Flanking lengths of railings each side, some eight metres in length. Railings have spear finials, set on low rubble walls with slab copings. Terminating ashlar piers with pyramid copings. Outer flanking lengths of rubble walling, some ten metres long. Right-hand length has stone coping, left length has rough partly cemented coping. Higher return rubble-built wall to right end, forming N boundary.
Reason for designation
Group value with Saron Chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Saron Congregational Chapel, including attached schoolroomReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Harcourt Terrace Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, including schoolroom and front railingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- N.C.B. ClubCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Town ClockGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.