Front Walls and railings at Saron Congregational Chapel, Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7704 / 51°46'13"N

Longitude: -3.2477 / 3°14'51"W

OS Eastings: 313999

OS Northings: 208708

OS Grid: SO139087

Mapcode National: GBR YW.ZM1J

Mapcode Global: VH6CT.NRDN

Plus Code: 9C3RQQC2+5W

Entry Name: Front Walls and railings at Saron Congregational Chapel

Listing Date: 14 October 1999

Last Amended: 14 October 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 22493

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300022493

Location: Chapel is prominently located on the E side of Park Row, strikingly terminating vista looking W up Market Street from The Circle. Walls and railings set in front of chapel and schoolroom.

County: Blaenau Gwent

Community: Tredegar

Built-Up Area: Tredegar

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

Tagged with: Wall

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History

Later C19. Chapel built 1858 by Rev. Thomas Thomas of Landore, renowned chapel architect and Congregational minister. The first chapel was built 1819, rebuilt 1828. The 1828 chapel survives as the present schoolroom.

Exterior

Central ashlar piers with pyramid copings: paired iron gates with spear finials. Flanking lengths of railings each side, some eight metres in length. Railings have spear finials, set on low rubble walls with slab copings. Terminating ashlar piers with pyramid copings. Outer flanking lengths of rubble walling, some ten metres long. Right-hand length has stone coping, left length has rough partly cemented coping. Higher return rubble-built wall to right end, forming N boundary.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with Saron Chapel.

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Front Walls and railings at Saron Congregational Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent