Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Holy Trinity Church Hall (Former Church School)
Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 5 August 1991
- Community
- Newcastle Emlyn
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.03891, -4.46861
- Cadw reference
- 9702
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 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated opposite Holy Trinity Church and behind Bethel Chapel.
History
1848, extended 1856 to designs by Charles Davies of Cenarth.
Exterior
Church school, originally a balanced cruciform composition with single storey schoolrooms each side of a 2-storey gabled teacher's house; but W wing extended in similar style in 1856 and circa 1900 the porch on W side of house replaced by projecting gabled structure.
Coursed blue lias stone with imitation slate roofs and brick rebuilt centre ridge stack to house (originally there were paired stone stacks). Windows were all small paned 3-light timber-mullion windows with cut stone voissoirs and moulded slate hoodmoulds, 2 to each wing, one to upper floor of house gable and one with transom and top-lights to house ground floor; but house windows have been replaced. House has one of original pair of hipped lean-to Tudor-arched porches surviving on E side, but W side has low gabled parallel range partly blocking first of schoolroom windows, and with similar Tudor-arched W side doorway. N end casement pair. West schoolroom wing has been extended by 2 further windows in matching style, 1856, and with bigger 4-light timber W end windows.
Rear of house is rendered and altered, but original schoolrooms have unaltered rear windows. Rear of 1856 addition has C20 brick parallel rear range.
Reason for designation
Group value
Nearby in the register
- Bethel Presbyterian Chapel, including School-room & Wall to Church StreetReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Court HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of the Holy Trinity (including Churchyard Monument & Boundry Walls)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 15 Sycamore StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.