This linocut print shows from top left to right;
The Constitutional Club its 'precipitous pavilion roof in the centre surmounted by an enormous ironwork crown'. 1894.
Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1867, remodelled 1894.
Temperence Hall. New facade. Originally1858.
Statue of Griffith Rhys Jones(Caradog) in Victoria Square. 1920.
Old Court House, 'an agressive and rather ugly neo-Baroque facade'. 1914.
Second row (l-r);
The Black Lion Hotel
National School 1848?
Midland Bank, Grey Newbridge rock-faced stone and Bath stone ashlar. Barryesque palazzo style.1857.
Bottom row(l-r);
Higher Standard School. (Now girls comp) Pennant sandstone dressed with red Wilderness ashlar .1905.
St David's Presbyterian Church. Geometrical gothic. 1878.
Market 'an ashlar pedimented temple front with paired Tuscan pillars' 1853
Quotes from Pevsner Buildings of Glamorgan.
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Friday, 22 July 2011
Aberdare Montage
Labels:
Aberdare,
Bethania Chapel,
Black lion Hotel,
chapels,
church,
cynon,
linocut,
market hall,
wales,
welsh chapels
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