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
Built 1840.
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.
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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