Capel Ebenezer is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 September 1999. Chapel.
Capel Ebenezer
- WRENN ID
- keen-bronze-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 September 1999
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Capel Ebenezer, Clynnog-Fawr, Caernarfon, Clynnog
- OS grid reference
- SH 416 498
- Coordinates
- 53.0222, -4.36158
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel Ebenezer is a chapel built of snecked squared granite, featuring a slate roof and positioned gable end to the road. In front, there is a lower porch with an ashlar stone parapet and a central gabled arch supported by sturdy pilasters in a Classical style. The entrance has panelled double doors, with narrow paned slit windows on each side. Above the porch, set back in the gable end, is a stone Palladian window that lights the main body of the chapel, along with a circular window above it, which has an architrave on the upper half. The side elevation consists of four window bays that extend back to the adjoining manse, featuring 24-pane sash windows with arched heads and a chamfered plinth.
Inside, there is a full-width transverse lobby with two doors leading to the two aisles of the chapel. The floor is slightly raked, and the walls are rendered and lined, topped with a boarded ceiling that is panelled in 12 bays and includes two ventilation roses. The boarded dado adds to the interior detail. The set fawr is defined by a panelled enclosure with a galleried top register and rounded corners. Inside, cushioned benches surround the raised pulpit, which has steps on either side. Behind the pulpit is a Classical reredos featuring fluted Corinthian pilasters that support an entablature and segmental pediment. The central arched feature includes a fan motif, with large brass lamps on brackets positioned on either side. The three banks of pews are divided down the center. A clock on the rear wall faces the preacher. All the joinery is made of ginger-stained pine. At the rear of the chapel, there is a small transverse vestry and a Sunday school room that continues to the right as the manse.
Local climate
Capel Ebenezer sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,710 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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