High Street Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Merthyr Tydfil local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 August 1975. Factory, house.
High Street Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- lunar-bronze-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1975
- Type
- Factory, house
- Address
- High Street Baptist Church, Town
- OS grid reference
- SO 049 059
- Coordinates
- 51.74458, -3.37854
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
High Street Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building featuring a bold neo-classical front with three bays, constructed of painted render. The design includes an advanced, pedimented center and parapets on the side bays, topped with a gable crucifix. A bracket cornice and a band course sit beneath a recessed tablet that reads "High Street Chapel," while a deep cornice is positioned above a banded rusticated ground floor. The outer first-floor windows have pediments and leaded glazing, while the ground-floor windows are plain.
The monumental central entrance features a plain arch leading to a later vaulted porch that breaks through the cornice, flanked by detached Doric columns on the jambs and twin pilasters beside a segmental inner doorway.
To the side, a one-bay return mirrors the main style, followed by four bays with simple walls, plain bands, and round-headed upper windows adorned with tracery.
Inside, the church boasts a fine two-storey interior with cast-iron columns that support a three-sided panelled gallery, which features an arcade treatment at the gallery level. A large platform with a pulpit and seating is located against the inner wall.
Local climate
High Street Baptist Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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