Capel Salem, including attached Sunday School, forecourt gates and railings and hall to rear

Capel Salem is a classical style chapel, dating from the 18th century, constructed of snecked rubble stone with grey freestone dressings and a slate roof. It sits alongside an attached Sunday School, forecourt gates and railings, and a hall to the rear.

The chapel's gable-end front is three bays wide and features a giant arch surmounted by a pediment demonstrating the style of Thomas. Tuscan pilasters rise from high bases to sill level. The outer bays have two-light windows with tripartite keystones to round heads and moulded impost bands. The wider central bay contains a recessed porch with three round-headed arches, the central one being wider and taller, and supported by two detached Tuscan columns carrying a projecting balcony. Inside the porch is boarded wainscot and a round-headed window. Double doors with round-headed panels and segmental-headed radial glazing above are set within the return walls. The balcony has an open balustrade, above which is a large gallery window composed of two main lights under a large round tracery light, set within an eared architrave with a tripartite keystone.

The side walls, five windows wide, are constructed of coursed local slate-stone rubble and feature round-headed, two-light gallery windows. Attached to the right side is the Sunday School, built of roughcast painted light blue with a slate roof and a ball finial over the right-hand gable. It has four round-headed two-light windows. A lower gabled porch with a panelled door facing the road provides its entrance; an opening to its right has been boarded up. The gable end of the school has two-light windows flanking the porch and an oculus in the gable. A shallow lean-to has been added to the rear of the chapel, extending from the Sunday School. A round-headed, louvered vent is set into the chapel’s gable.

Distinctive forecourt gates and railings mark the main chapel entrance. The forecourt is bordered by a dwarf wall of snecked rubble with freestone coping. Terminal and gate piers are square freestone monoliths incorporating round-headed raised fields, moulded caps, and bases. Double cast iron gates feature dog bars with spear finials, similar finials over the top rail, and incorporate neo-classical fretwork. Flanking railings are similar in design.

Inside the chapel, the ceiling is flat panelled and boarded, with a large ceiling rose, and a cornice at the impost level of the windows. A three-sided gallery is supported by classicising cast-iron columns and has a panelled wooden frontal on a dentil cornice. Steeply-tiered pews with doors are arranged throughout the chapel. An organ by Bridley and Foster, dating from 1884, is located at the entrance end of the gallery. A wooden pulpit and panelled set fawr are later 19th-century alterations; the pulpit has a bowed frontal with relief panels, turned newels and balusters to the stairs. Behind the pulpit, a shallow arched recess features Corinthian half-columns and fleur-de-lys decoration. The chapel’s pews are panelled and have doors, arranged in three ranks, with the outer ranks parallel to the walls.