Blaenavon WHS Attributes and Components
UNESCO Criteria for Inscription
iii) To bear a unique or at least exceptional The area around Blaenavon bears eloquent and exceptional (iv) To be an outstanding example of a type of testimony to a cultural tradition or to a testimony to the pre-eminence of South Wales as the world’s building, architectural or technological ensemble
O U O U V civilization which is living or which has major producer of iron and coal in the 19th century. All the or landscape which illustrates (a) significant disappeared stage(s) in human history necessary elements can be seen in situ – coal and ore mines, Inscription quarries, a primitive railway system, furnaces, the homes of
The Blaenavon Landscape constitutes an the workers, and the social infrastructure of their community The components of the Blaenavon Landscape exceptional illustration in material form of the together make up an outstanding and social and economic structure of 19th century remarkably complete example of a 19th UNESCO – Blaenavon Industrial Landscape – A Cultural Landscape industry century industrial landscape
Attributes 2. Outstanding relict 3. Evidence of the area’s 4. Development of 1. Evidence of tangible and international intangible heritage of the landscape - combined transport systems importance in iron th development of early efforts of nature and making and coal mining in the late 18 and th industrial society man in the late 18th and 19 centuries early 19th century.
Pen-Fford Goch Scouring Pen-Ffordd-Goch Hill’s Tram Road TANGIBLE HERITAGE INTANGIBLE HERITAGE Scouring Landscape North of St. Peter’s Church Blaenavon Ironworks Pwll Du Tunnel Patronage, Philanthropy and Social Control in early Landscape North of Pwll Du Limestone Quarry Blorenge Tunnel St. Peter’s School (BWHC) Industrial Society Blaenavon Ironworks Fireclay
The Company Shop Welsh Religious Non- Pwll Du Limestone Llanfoist Incline Tyla Limestone Quarry
Components conformism in the Quarry Ty Mawr Nineteenth Century Big Pit National Coal Llanfoist Wharf Museum Tyla Limestone BlaenavonWorkmen’s Hall Self-Improvement and Govilon Wharf Quarry Engine Pit Working Class Culture in Bethlehem, Moriah, Horeb, Industrial Communities Hill Pits Monmouthshire & Bethel, Big Pit National Coal Brecon Canal Zion Baptist, Wesleyan Political Radicalism Museum Aaron Brute’s Level
Methodist and River Arch Level Dyne-Steel Incline Zion Chapel (Band Hall) Trade Unionism Blaenavon Ironworks Blaenavon Ironworks
Garn Ddyrys Forge (site Blaenavon Town Centre Male Voice Choirs Blaenavon Town Iron Bridge near of) Aaron Brute’s Level Workers’ Housing Town Bands Engine Pit Cwmavon Forge (site of)
Various remains of King Street The Decline of the Welsh Hill’s Tram Road Water Management primitive railways
Language in the Nineteenth Commercial Properties (15-19 Century Coity Tip Original Steam Broad St) Railway 1856