Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Salvation Army Citadel
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, designated on 24 November 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Institutional
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1987
- Community
- Aberystwyth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.41392, -4.08315
- Cadw reference
- 9927
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 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 · 163 Aberystwyth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1941 · Aberystwyth. (Internet Archive)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at the road junction near the corner with Chalybeate Street.
History
Built 1844, as a Welsh speaking English Wesleyan Chapel and school at cost of £257; the street was then known as Lewis Terrace. In 1870, following the building of the Bath Street Chapel, it became Wesle Bach and in 1908 was purchased for the Salvation Army after their meetings in the castle grounds were banned.
Exterior
Classical 4-bay roughcast gable ended front with pediment treatment and apex finial; rusticated quoins, plinth and impost band; slate roof. Bulls eye louvred attic opening with moulded keystons. Deep band with modern lettering over semicircular headed small pane sash windows with keystones, flanked below by similarly headed entrances; modern doors.
Modernised interior.
Nearby in the register
- Welsh SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- 8 Queen StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 10 Queen StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 12 Queen StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.