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High Street Baptist Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Town (Y Dref), Merthyr Tydfil

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7446 / 51°44'40"N

Longitude: -3.3785 / 3°22'42"W

OS Eastings: 304922

OS Northings: 205997

OS Grid: SO049059

Mapcode National: GBR HN.1BWY

Mapcode Global: VH6CY.DD8Y

Plus Code: 9C3RPJVC+RH

Entry Name: High Street Baptist Church

Listing Date: 22 August 1975

Last Amended: 13 January 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 11451

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: High Street Baptist Church,High Street

ID on this website: 300011451

Location: On a detached site midway down the pedestrianised section of High Street.

County: Merthyr Tydfil

Community: Town (Y Dref)

Community: Town

Built-Up Area: Merthyr Tydfil

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: Church building Chapel

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History

Built 1840.

Exterior

Bold neo-classical front of 3 bays, painted render with advanced, pedimented centre, parapets to side bays, gable crucifix. Bracket cornice, band course under recessed "High Street Chapel" tablet, deep cornice over banded rusticated ground-floor. Pediments to outer first-floor windows with leaded glazing, plain ground-floor windows. Monumental central entrance with plain arch to later vaulted porch breaking through cornice, detached Doric columns to jambs, twin pilasters flank segmental inner doorway.

One-bay return flanks in similar style, then 4-bay simple walls with plain bands and round headed upper windows with tracery.

Interior

Fine 2-storey interior with cast-iron columns supported 3-sided panelled gallery, arcade treatment at gallery level. Great platform with pulpit, big seat etc to inner wall.

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