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. A Victorian Church.

High Street Baptist Church

WRENN ID
lunar-bronze-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Merthyr Tydfil
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 August 1975
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Source
Cadw listing

Description

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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