Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Forecourt railings and gates to Zion Chapel
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 19 May 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1981
- Community
- Carmarthen
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85714, -4.31016
- Cadw reference
- 9499
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 229 Carmarthen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated across forecourt to Zion Chapel, which faces down street.
History
Iron railings and double gates probably erected in 1850 when the chapel was built.
Exterior
Iron railings and matching gates with unusual wrought-iron flat spear-headed finials to rails and square stanchions with urn finials each end. Matching double gates with similar urn finials to outer and meeting stiles.
Reason for designation
Included as a particularly unusual set of hand-made iron railings, of group value with Zion Chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Ty ManselNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 7 Mansel StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8 Mansel StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Zion English Presbyterian ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.