Soar Maes-yr-haf Congregational Chapel and forecourt railings, Neath, Neath Port Talbot

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6626 / 51°39'45"N

Longitude: -3.8068 / 3°48'24"W

OS Eastings: 275126

OS Northings: 197522

OS Grid: SS751975

Mapcode National: GBR H2.6K5X

Mapcode Global: VH4K5.YGVT

Plus Code: 9C3RM57V+27

Entry Name: Soar Maes-yr-haf Congregational Chapel and forecourt railings

Listing Date: 5 January 1989

Last Amended: 5 January 1989

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 11801

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Soar Maes-Yr-Haf Congregational Chapel

ID on this website: 300011801

Location: Behind a raised railed forecourt at the end of Maes-yr-Haf Road alongside the railway.

County: Neath Port Talbot

Community: Neath (Castell-nedd)

Community: Neath

Built-Up Area: Neath

Traditional County: Glamorgan

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Exterior

1864 Independent Chapel on the site of an earlier chapel of 1769. Three bay classical front. Squared, coursed rubble, ashlar dressings. Vermiculated rusticated quoins. Moderately pitched slate roof, hipped to rear. Open timber pediment, plain returned entablature to outer bays, lettering to frieze INDEPENDENT CHAPEL. Centre bay recessed below depressed rusticated arch resting on entablature of outer bays. Inset stone tablet reads MAES-YR-HAF, BUILT 1769, REBUILT 1864. Stepped tripartite gallery window. Centre light broader, moulded arches, plain pilasters on brackets, sill band. Round arched doorway, rusticated architrave, double doors, framed panels.

Tall round arched 2 light windows to outer bays, rusticated architraves. Five window side elevations. Moulded timber eaves cornice. Tall round arched 2 light windows in stepped recesses, stressed keystones. Impost and sill bands, plinth.

Similar fenestration to 2 storey, 2 window schoolroom at rear. Rusticated architrave to ground floor window, similar detail to doorway at right. Raised railed forecourt to front.

Burial ground adjoins to E. Good ironwork railings. Barley twist principal rods, stone base. Tall stone gatepiers tooled caps, contemporary iron double gates.

Interior

Galleried interior.

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Soar Maes-yr-haf Congregational Chapel and forecourt railings

A Grade II Listed Building in Neath, Neath Port Talbot

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