Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former church hall
Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, designated on 26 September 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 26 September 2005
- Locality
- Porthmadog
- Town
- Porthmadog
- Community
- Porthmadog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.92812, -4.12833
- Cadw reference
- 85374
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Near the N end of Snowdon Street, just S of the former gasworks and Snowdon Mill.
History
Probably built in the early C20. Disused by the late C20.
Exterior
A corrugated-iron single-storey 4-window hall painted black. The entrance is R of centre, has an open porch with finial, to boarded doors. Windows have wooden mullions and transoms and small-pane glazing. Outer windows are 2-light, the centre and centre-L windows 3-light windows. The gable ends have inserted boarded doors and the rear has similar windows.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved church hall using prefabricated materials, a type once common but now rarely well preserved.
Nearby in the register
- Snowdon Mill and Ty'r FelinIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Croeswr Tramway Bridge over Y CytNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Road bridge over Y Cyt beyond NE end of Chapel StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Capel Salem, including attached Sunday School, forecourt gates and railings and hall to rearReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.