Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Miner's Welfare Hall
Town, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Health and Welfare
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1988
- Town
- Merthyr
- Community
- Town
- Unitary authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.74700, -3.37673
- Cadw reference
- 82671
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
Prominently sited on the way to Thomastown from High Street.
History
Originally built ca 1855 as Shiloh Welsh Wesleyan Chapel. Probably designed by I K Brunel, engineer to Vale of Neath Railway Company who erected the new chapel when the railway station was built on the earlier site. Corner town cut down and building lengthened in 1921 when converted to Miners’ Hall. Recently (Spring 1987) converted to club use.
Exterior
Tall, gabled Romanesque front, snecked rubble facings, freestone dressings, modern slate roofs with bargeboards. Gable corbel-table rises from end pilasters with outer scalloped capitals linked horizontally by stringcourse; sill-band. Oculus with chevron splay and hoodmould to gable; incised lettering below. 9-light window band set into Romanesque interlace with taller two-order centre window, chevron to arch-ring, nook-shafts with scallop capitals. Three arched doorways, centre with corbelled hoodmoulds, chevron arch-ring and nook shafts with scallop capitals; plain boarded doors and tympana. Cut-down tower on left with modern hipped roof, recessed panels.
Terraced forecourt with original outer gatepiers and ironwork railings on side walls.
Aisled side elevation to Tramroad Site North with four 3-light interlaced clerestory windows, plainer arched openings below; different treatment to added bay.
Interior
Interior retains 3-sided galleries on columns and large blind arch with corbelled hoodmould.
Reason for designation
First listed in 1988 corrected record no 08/04/2004
Nearby in the register
- Newton HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Newton HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church Hall at St David's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- St David's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.