Buildings and Structures of Note
Ton Pentre Workingmen's Hall and Institute is a Grade II listed building, once a miners' institute but now a cinema called the Phoenix. The original building was constructed in 1895 next to the Crawshay Bailey Estate Office on Church Road. The institute was built from subscriptions from the Maindy and Eastern collieries, and originally the institute took the name of both pits. The building consisted of a library, news room, refreshment room and committee room, along with other functional areas. A theatre hall was added to the institute in 1904 designed by architect, Jacob Hall. In 1908 the hall was rented out to a private company for showing early silent movies. In 1931 the hall was upgraded to allow the playing of talkies, and continued as a cinema until 1971 when it became a bingo hall. It was closed in 1989 and was derelict for two years until it reopened as 'The Phoenix' in 1991.
Bethesda Chapel on Pryce Street, was a Congregationalist chapel built in 1877 and rebuilt and enlarged in 1906 the impressive building once seated over 1,000 people but by 1988 the congregation had fallen to 11. The chapel still stands today but in a state of disrepair.
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