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High Street, MERTHYR TYDFIL, CF47 8UG

The view south along Pontmorlais, a narrow street in central Merthyr Tydfil. The pink building on the left is the Imperial Hotel. At the left edge of the photo is part of the derelict former Morlais Castle Inn. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1825962

Located in Pontmorlais, a separately-named section of High Street. This is an 1862 rebuild of the original chapel dating from 1797. Since closure as a chapel, the building has had various secular uses, such as a furniture shop. Grade II listed in January 1988.

This OS cut mark can be found on the building which was once the Mile End PH. It marks a point 180.4197m above mean sea level.

A side street off the High Street to the left of Sovereign Grace Church http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3001940 .

This OS cut mark can be found on a wall post in front of Hope Chapel. It marks a point 179.207m above mean sea level.

This sculpture by David Appleyard was installed in Penderyn Square in Merthyr Tydfil in 2017. It honours Richard Lewis, known as Dic Penderyn, who was hanged in Cardiff on the 13th August 1831, for his part in the Chartist Rising in Merthyr. Penderyn was convicted of stabbing and wounding a soldier with a bayonet, on very shaky evidence, and came to be considered a martyr by the working people of the town and of Wales generally. The heart is made from steel derived from iron from the Cyfarthfa ironworks in the town; cuts to the wages of the already hard-pressed workers at Cyfarthfa were among the sparks that ignited the uprising. Before the heart are four sandstone slabs, letter-carved by John Neilsen with a poem commissioned from Gillian Clarke: The Rising Bearing their Welsh, their hunger, cold, they trudged the roads from Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, the lonely upland farms, to Merthyr and a dream of gold. Ironstone miners, puddlers. Their hearts of iron made their masters rich, Merthyr our biggest town, twenty-thousand by eighteen thirty one, that blazing day a working class was born. They gathered beneath the peaks of Pen-y-Fan, Corn Ddu, Cribyn, and soldiers shot them down. Lament injustice, slaughter, the good man hanged as a warning: Dic Penderyn. Yn gweithio ym mwyngloddiau’r dwyrain, ifanc, dewr, Dic Penderyn, calon gref, calon haearn, dieuog i’r crocbren. The final stanza is an englyn, a traditional Welsh poetic form, and speaks of Penderyn's "strong heart, iron heart, innocent to the gallows." For the inscriptions, see Image] and Image See also David Appleyard's site https://www.davidappleyard.co.uk/merthyr-heart , also Wikipedia on Penderyn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dic_Penderyn and on the Merthyr Rising https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merthyr_Rising .

On the corner of High Street and New Castle Street.

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