Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, Old St. Mellons (Hen Laneirwg), Cardiff

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5242 / 51°31'27"N

Longitude: -3.1129 / 3°6'46"W

OS Eastings: 322886

OS Northings: 181178

OS Grid: ST228811

Mapcode National: GBR KZ3.XK

Mapcode Global: VH7BJ.0Y5D

Plus Code: 9C3RGVFP+MR

Entry Name: Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses

Listing Date: 10 June 1977

Last Amended: 31 August 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 13923

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses

ID on this website: 300013923

Location: Side-on to the main thoroughfare within a small walled enclosure incorporating iron gate with heavy caps to the gate-piers.

County: Cardiff

Town: Cardiff

Community: Old St. Mellons (Hen Laneirwg)

Community: Old St. Mellons

Locality: St Mellons

Built-Up Area: Cardiff

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

Tagged with: Architectural structure Chapel

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History

Built as Soar Welsh Independent Chapel c 1840. Shown with burial ground to rear on OS map of 1880.

Exterior

Small chapel. Of rendered stone painted in white with black detailing; shallow-pitched hipped Welsh slate roof with bracketed eaves cornice; bands at impost and sill levels to both front and side elevations. Side wall facade with 3 tall round-headed arches with shorter round-headed windows inserted within the 2 end blockings; archivolts and keystones. Small gabled porch wing against gable end also with bracketed eaves; round-headed doorway with renewed doors facing street; impost band returns to gable-end elevation curving over a now blocked window with sill. Wall extends to form a small entrance courtyard; thick rubble wall with later brick piers, pyramidal coping and iron gate with slender spear finials.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a small chapel in the early-mid C19 village centre of Old St Mellons; group value with the war memorial, the White Hart PH and the Bluebell Inn.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II War Memorial
On a corner site between the main thoroughfare and the old village street within a railed enclosure.
II Bethania Evangelical Church
Situated at the S end of the historic village core in a triangular open churchyard shaded with conifers, the burial ground sited opposite on the other side of Bethania Row.
II The White Hart PH
Obliquely facing the main throughfare and opposite the Bluebell Inn PH.
II Base of churchyard cross in St Mellons churchyard
In the SE corner of the churchyard near the foot of the slope.
II Bluebell Inn PH
Facing the main thoroughfare and opposite the White Hart PH, part of the historic village centre.
II Memorial to Joseph Benjamin Hemingway in St Mellons churchyard
Close to S porch of church.
I Church of St Mellon
In a commanding hilltop position with access lane and open ground to N and churchyard extending below on S slope.
II Lychgate to St Mellons Church
Situated by the road at the entrance to a drive which leads uphill to church, churchyard and other buildings including Church Lodge and other dwellings.

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Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses

A Grade II Listed Building in Old St. Mellons (Hen Laneirwg), Cardiff