Park Congregational School, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6799 / 51°40'47"N

Longitude: -4.1614 / 4°9'41"W

OS Eastings: 250661

OS Northings: 200118

OS Grid: SN506001

Mapcode National: GBR GS.V8D5

Mapcode Global: VH3MJ.T1DH

Plus Code: 9C3QMRHQ+XC

Entry Name: Park Congregational School

Listing Date: 12 March 1992

Last Amended: 12 March 1992

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 11922

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300011922

Location: Situated to rear of Park Chapel, facing down Ralph Street.

County: Carmarthenshire

Community: Llanelli

Built-Up Area: Llanelli

Traditional County: Carmarthenshire

Tagged with: School building

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Exterior

1889 Sunday School by Lander and Bedells of London (plaque) in squared tooled blue lias stone with Bath stone dressings, single storey with high octagonal slate roof. Cruciform plan with coped shouldered projecting gables to cardinal faces over plate-traceried 3-light windows. Intermediate diagonal low walls with sloping roof up to band of lantern lights, 8-sided, and steep bell-cast octagonal roof above.

In south west angle a low range runs west with gabled south door and coped parapet to right over 4-light mullion window.

Interior

Single large octagonal space with boarded roofs. Big sling braces to roof trusses rising from low corbels and cross-beams across gable openings with whalebone braces above.

Reasons for Listing

Included in list for distinctive octagonal shape and internal roof structure.

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Park Congregational School

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire