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Appendix 11.1: Heritage Assets

The Port Talbot Steelworks (Power Generation Enhancement) Order

Environmental Statement Volume 3

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Table 11.1.1 Heritage Assets

Reference Grid

Reference Period Description

No. on

Fig 11.1

9858 SS 7839

8743 Post-Medieval

Beulah Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. Built in 1838, it is the only

surviving octagonal chapel in Wales. Grade II Listed Building. 1

404723 SS 77255

89098 Post-Medieval Church of St Theodore. Grade II* Listed Building. 2

414438 SS 7753

8951 Post-Medieval

Gothic style, holy Cross Church erected in 1827. Grade II Listed

Building. 3

04803w SS 768 896 Modern

Plaza Cinema on the corner of Station Road and Eagle Street, Port

Talbot. Built in 1939 in a modernist style with Art Deco influences.

Listed Building

4

00734w SS 7834

8733

Roman to

Early

Medieval

Cantusus Stone. A squared sandstone pillar serving as a milestone. It

was later used as an early Christian monument. Scheduled

Monument.

5

00728w SS 7670

8941

Early

Medieval

Early Christian Monument. Slab-like stone used for an incised cross in

the 7th or 8th century. Later recut to form a 'panelled-cross' slab, late 9th

or 10th century. Scheduled Monument.

6

00724w SS 7651

8958

Early

Medieval

Lower Court Farm. Cylindrical pillar stone found at Cwrt Isaf; crosses on

three sides with an inscription reading TOME (name of person

commemorated or possibly dedication of site to St Thomas). 8th-9th

century in date. Scheduled Monument.

7

00727w SS 7670

8955

Early

Medieval

Part of a disc-headed cross at Upper Court Farm. Scheduled

Monument 8

00726w SS 7670

8955 Medieval Cross slab at Upper Court Farm. Scheduled Monument 9

02903w,

301663

SS 77369

89250 Modern

Talbot Memorial Park. Small, well preserved urban public park with a

fine central bandstand and war memorial. Constructed in 1925. 10



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No. on

Fig 11.1

Registered Park and Garden Grade II

524727 SS 75870

88792 Mesolithic

Excavation found a submerged forest, peat deposits and artefact

scatters. 11

00737w SS 7830

8762 Neolithic Find spot of Neolithic axe. 12

05346w SS 7816

8873 Iron Age Brombil Farm, Margam 8. Oval enclosure. 13

00803w SS 773 898 Roman Sculptured stone. 14

00739w SS 7742

8652 Roman Find spot of Roman coin. 15

00735w SS 7808

8836 Roman Find spot of Roman coin. 16

307252 SS 7625

8898

Roman to

Medieval Platch-yr-eglwys. A Roman milestone. 17

301399,

301398,

301397

SS 7670

8941

Early

Medieval Port Talbot Slab. First used as an inscribed stone. 18

00740w

19331

SS 7815

8605 Medieval

RCAHMW identifies documentary references to the Middle Burrows

Grange and the New Grange as referring to the same site of Henbiniwn 19

301401 SS 7633

8998 Medieval

Inscribed stone. Part of a squared slab with incised cross and

inscription. 20

54459 SS 7806

8901 Medieval Mynydd Brombil Platform 2. 21

19313 SS 766 896 Medieval Meles Grange. Medieval domestic dwelling. 22

00730w SS 7759 Medieval Llanbugeilydd Grange, possible site at Mae-y-court. Grange at Margam 23



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No. on

Fig 11.1

8955 Abbey.

01159w SS 7653

8960 Medieval

Lower Court (Yr Hen Gapel). Lower Court is a two-storeyed house with

a single gable-ended chimney and putlog holes in the gable wall.

Destroyed by 1913.

24

05277w SS 767 896 Medieval Hen Gapel. Possible chapel of Margam's Meles Grange. The building

was later converted into a cottage. 25

05777w SS 78470

89470 Post-Medieval

Old quarry at Taibach. An old quarry located to the south of Dyffryn Mill,

as identified from Ordnance Survey Third Edition (1917) Map. 26

05334w SS 7828

8899 Post-Medieval

Brombil Farm, Margam 2. Stone and earth field banks covered in

tussocky grass. 27

00736w,

28025

SS 7815

8831 Post-Medieval

Groeswen Grange (Margam Abbey). Also known as Whitecross Grange.

It is not recorded before the 16th century. It was demolished during the

construction of the motorway.

28

05359w

54458

SS 7806

8904 Post-Medieval Brombil Farm, Margam 7. Platform 1. 29

13633 SS 7755

8886 Post-Medieval

Smyrna Baptist Chapel built in 1860. Undergoing renovation work in

2009. 30

9846 SS 7757

8892 Post-Medieval

Gibeon Independant Chapel. It was built in 1854, rebuilt in 1860 and

further altered in 1910. 31

9860 SS 77231

88964 Post-Medieval

Dyffry Welsh Calvinist Methodist Chapel. Built in 1841 it was rebuilt in

1893. 32

13626 SS 7694

8951 Post-Medieval Religious hall, Port Talbot. Possible chapel. 33

02728w

19206

SS 7843

8933 Post-Medieval Lletypiod. House with direct entry, end chimney and thatch roof. 34



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No. on

Fig 11.1

28025,

02727w

SS 7816

8831 Post-Medieval

Whitecross Grange domestic dwelling dating to the 17th century. It was

in a ruinous state by 1983. 35

34098 SS 7725

8855 Post-Medieval

Margam Copper Works. They began in 1772-80 and stopped in 1898.

They were built over by Margam Iron and Steel Works in 1926. 36

9866 SS 7763

8882 Post-Medieval

English Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Taibach. Built in 1840 and rebuilt

in 1892. 37

05776w SS 78070

89590 Post-Medieval

Old Quarry at Taibach. An old quarry located to the south of Dyffryn Mill,

as identified from Ordnance Survey Third Edition (1917) Map. 38

03821w,

418307

SS 7668

8962 Post-Medieval

Port Talbot Parkway railway station, South Wales Passenger Railway,

built in 1850. 39

05360w SS 7807

8905 Post-Medieval

Brombil Farm, Margam 6. A bracken-covered, slightly sunken platform

on a terrace overlooking the coastal belt to the west. 40

13628 SS 7722

8981 Post-Medieval Chapel, Bridge Street. Demolished by 1980. 41

20258 SS 7672

8956 Post-Medieval Upper Court. 42

06171w SS 782 888 Post-Medieval Depression left on Morgan mountain by 16th century ore mining. 43

01993w SS78678803 Post-Medieval A terraced platform defined by remnants of stone wall on the south-

western slopes of Mynydd Brombil. 44

9865 SS 76830

89887 Post-Medieval Wesley Hall English Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. Built in 1892. 45

04291.0w SS 7839

8982 Post-Medieval Port Talbot railway. 46

19252 SS 7652

8957 Post-Medieval Lower Court. Domestic dwelling. 47



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No. on

Fig 11.1

265725 SS 77892

88547 Post-Medieval Glanafon Garden shown on Ordnance Survey map of 1899. 48

240757 SS 78086

86371 Post-Medieval Ship’s timber find 49

9851 SS 7709

8971 Post-Medieval Calfaria, Tan-y-Groes Street. Chapel site. 50

01731w SS 7890

8750 Post-Medieval Brombil Farm. 51

408518 SS 7616

8969 Post-Medieval Mansel Tin Plate Works. Shown on the 1877 OS map. 52

8867 SS 7586

8987 Post-Medieval Sandfields Hall Calvinistic Methodist chapel. Built prior to 1900. 53

302334 SS 7906

8693 Post-Medieval

Groes School Built circa 1890, demolished to make way for M4

motorway. 54

43132 SS 7633

8994 Post-Medieval Halfpenny Bridge Old. Built in c.1830 and rebuilt in 1910. 55

13624 SS 7619

8999 Post-Medieval St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church 56

273568 SS 77064

88555 Post-Medieval

Aberthaw wreck. Archaeological remains associated with the loss of this

vessel are not confirmed as present at this location, but may be in the

vicinity.

57

20221 SS 7927

8637

Post-

Medieval? Ty’n-Y-Caeau 17th century house 58

408513 SS 7716

8861 Modern

Margam Iron and Steel Works. Built in 1926 on the site of Margam

Copper Works (nprn 34098). The works closed in 1953. 59



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No. on

Fig 11.1

9848 SS 7739

8895 Modern

Noddfa Independent Chapel. There is no record of its construction date

but it is believed to have been early 20th century. 60

301405 SS 76686

89511 Modern

Magistrates Court. Converted from Talbot Steel Company General

Offices in 1988. 61

9862 SS 7770

8845 Modern Margam Road Calvinistic Methodist chapel. Built in 1926. 62

9847 SS 7714

8954 Modern Grange Street Independent Chapel built in early part of the 20th century. 63

409888 SS 76470

89620 Modern

Port Talbot Steel Works. Constructed 1901-05 and closed in 1961 and

demolished in 1963. 64

506806 SS 76235

88975 Modern Eva. Maritime wreck. 65

9861 SS 7684

8975 Modern Grove Place Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. Built in 1904. 66

43133 SS 7633

8994 Modern Halfpenny Bridge New. Built in c.1988 to replace existing bridge. 67

308125 SS 793871 Modern

The station at Margam was part of the World War II Chain Home Low

radar network used to detect shipping and low flying aircraft in the

Bristol Channel. Three concrete buildings and a platform remain, set on

the edge of the scarp overlooking Groes village.

68

268150 SS 7897

8592 Modern British Oxygen Company's works. Built in 1953. 69

417038 SS 77367

88900 Modern Regent Cinema, Tai Bach. 70

416880 SS 77537 Modern Picturedrome, Tai Bach. 71



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No. on

Fig 11.1

88952

515495 SS 75935

88905 Modern

Wreck of the Jumbo. Archaeological remains associated with the loss of

this vessel are not confirmed at present at this location, but may be in

the vicinity.

72

02610w SS 781 888 Post-

Medieval? Tai Bach Quarry. Earthworks noted on aerial photographs. 73

05363w

406182

SS 7823

8884 Prehistoric?

Brombil Farm, Margam 3. The 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of

Mynydd Brombil bears the legend: Pant y Cae - site of battle at this

location.

74

05362w SS 7825

8888

Post-

Medieval?

Brombil Farm, Margam 4. Two grassy sub-rectangular areas on a level

terrace above the steep western slopes of Mynydd Brombil. 75

9897 SS 7788 Post-Medieval Trinity Chapel. 76

19360 SS 7788 Post-Medieval Morfa Mawr Farmhouse. Domestic Dwelling. 77

913949 SS 7689 Post-Medieval

Port Talbot Docks. Opened in 1839 but by 1890 it was obsolete. Three

new railways were built in 1893 by the Port Talbot Railway and Docks

Company in an attempt to revive the docks. In 1962, the shipments of

coal stopped although iron ore continued to be traded. In 1972 the old

docks were replaced by a new deepwater tidal harbour.

78

19292 SS 7986 Post-Medieval

Margam Castle Middle Lodge. Built about 1840. Stone with stone slate

roof, gabled porch, one storey wing, octagonal stacks. Demolished

during construction of M4.

79

91392 SS7787 Modern Abbey Steel works 80

06422.0m Linear Post-Medieval Taff Vale Railway. 81

Linear Linear Roman Roman road from Cardiff to Neath through the area. 82

Historic SS779873 Post- Carreg-y-Rhiw Farm. 83



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No. on

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Mapping Medieval?

Historic

Mapping SS773885 Post-Medieval Brick works. 84

Historic

Mapping SS782877

Post-

Medieval? Stallcourt. 85

Historic

Mapping SS783875

Post-

Medieval? Arnault. 86

Historic

Mapping SS783872 Post-Medieval Toll Gate Cottage. 87

Historic

Mapping SS768892 Post-Medieval Taibach Tin Plate Works. 88

Historic

Mapping SS770891 Post-Medieval Ffrwdwyllt Tin Plate Works. 89

Historic

Mapping SS779884

Post-

Medieval? Groeswen-ganol. 90

Historic

Mapping SS780882

Post-

Medieval? Maesgwyn. 91

Historic

Mapping SS771887 Post-Medieval Limekilns. 92

Historic

Mapping SS772887 Post-Medieval Coke Ovens. 93

Historic

Mapping SS772889 Post-Medieval Gas Works. 94

Historic

Mapping SS783870

Post-

Medieval? Fynnon-Cefn Gwrgan. 95



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No. on

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Historic

Mapping SS786882 Medieval Pillow mounds, probably no older than the Medieval period. 96

Historic

Mapping SS770881 Post-Medieval Sewage flushing chamber. 97

Historic

Mapping SS773874 Post-Medieval Pumphouse. 98

Historic

Mapping SS764887 Post-Medieval Rio Tinto Copper Works. 99

E004324 SS 65672

92961 Medieval

14-17 St Mary's Street, Swansea. Excavation found possible medieval

burgage. -

03642w SS 7725

8670 Medieval

Fishweir found at the same time as the uncovering of Theodoric's

Grange (00738w) (outside study area). -

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