Zion English Presbyterian Chapel

Chapel, stuccoed front elevation with high plinth, paired outer pilasters carrying full entablature with blocking course and minimal central pediment feature with small inset semi-circular window. Raised letters in frieze: Zion Chapel 1850. First floor centre window of 3 arched lights, the centre one slightly taller and wider, with pilasters and unmoulded arches, the centre pilasters wider. Moulded sill course with small brackets under each pilaster. On ground floor, central doorway with moulded architrave flanked by thin panelled piers above plinth and under scrolled consoles supporting moulded cornice. Double doors each of one long arched panel. To each side of door an arched window in thin raised surround. Windows have narrow marginal panes and inner band of narrow panes. Two-storey side elevations of 3 bays with pebbledash cladding. Arched windows above and square-headed windows below, with similar glazing bars. Single storey schoolroom to rear.

Plain plastered interior with later C19 end gallery no longer accessible, over lobby entry. Coved cornice with dentils to ceiling in panels around a main panel. Painted grained pews with doors, in 3 blocks, 2 sections of outer blocks each side face inward. Pulpit and set fawr area all altered c2000 when organ was installed. Organ in Gothic case, in arched recess with bead-mould, framing inner arch itself with head lowered by crescent shaped insert on corbels. End gallery has attractive front with 2 rectangular panels under each long pierced narrow cast-iron panel, and each pair of these divided by a panelled pilaster. Four bays overall, with centre clock between pilasters. Deep moulded cornice below with modillions, and consoles under pilasters. Panels have applied late C19 urn and scroll embossed decoration, and cast-iron is to a scroll pattern. Entrance lobby has double doors left and right under overlights with inset hexagonal lantern (similar feature at Heol Awst chapel).