Latitude: 51.9466 / 51°56'47"N
Longitude: -3.3907 / 3°23'26"W
OS Eastings: 304510
OS Northings: 228482
OS Grid: SO045284
Mapcode National: GBR YP.MFLC
Mapcode Global: VH6BZ.5BTK
Plus Code: 9C3RWJW5+JP
Entry Name: The Old Museum
Listing Date: 16 January 1952
Last Amended: 4 November 2005
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 6892
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Glamorgan Street Chapel
ID on this website: 300006892
Location: Opposite Morgannwg House.
County: Powys
Town: Brecon
Community: Brecon (Aberhonddu)
Community: Brecon
Built-Up Area: Brecon
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Chapel Museum building
Opened 1836. Built by David Blow, English Independent Congregationalist Minister. This was the main building of the Brecknock Museum from 1927 until 1974.
Former Chapel. Stone, faced in cement rendering. Two storeys. Two blocks of three and two windows. Taller 3-window block has slate roof with paired bracketed eaves. Band and pilasters at first floor level; ground floor rusticated.. First floor windows with moulded archivolts; round-headed sash windows with interlacing tracery. Steps up to plain round-headed doorway in centre with panelled doors and fanlight; windows as those above. Right hand return wall is curved at north east end; exposed stone with brick dressings to windows as front. Slightly lower wing at west end of 3 storeys, 2 windows with floors at different levels to main block. Round-headed windows with interlacing tracery. Parapet with plain capping.
Earlier C19 chapel retaining its exterior character and with Group Value with adjacent listed buildings.
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