Latitude: 51.7206 / 51°43'14"N
Longitude: -3.4468 / 3°26'48"W
OS Eastings: 300157
OS Northings: 203416
OS Grid: SO001034
Mapcode National: GBR HK.2ZNT
Mapcode Global: VH6D3.60PV
Plus Code: 9C3RPHC3+67
Entry Name: Vestry attached to Salem Chapel
Listing Date: 10 January 1991
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 10875
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
ID on this website: 300010875
Location: Set back from the road behind burial ground and reached by railed path. At the NE end of the street.
County: Rhondda Cynon Taff
Town: Aberdare
Community: Aberdare (Aberdâr)
Community: Aberdare West
Locality: Robertstown
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Dated 1841; built to replace the timber building erected when the chapel was founded in 1836. Cost £500. Remodelled in 1899 but retaining the earlier long wall facade, and vestry added.
2-storey, 4-window front, pebbledash ground floor, cement render above; tall hipped slate roof with wide eaves and tiled cresting with hooked finials. Round arched headed openings including horned small pane sashes with marginal glazing bars. Paired boarded central doors with fanlights. Brace plate to left. The 1899 vestry is to left, set back. 2-window similar rear; vestry stepped forward with 3 horned sash windows.
Galleried interior with canted ceiling, boarded to the edge; circular ventilators to each corner and central plaster rose. Panelled gallery front carried on fluted cast iron columns with foliage capitals. Classical detail to set fawr with paired columns; round arched classical 'reredos' behind with painted pilasters and keystone.
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