Caerhun MC Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 September 1997. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Caerhun MC Chapel
- WRENN ID
- scarred-joist-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 September 1997
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Caerhun MC Chapel, Bangor, Pentir
- OS grid reference
- SH 573 690
- Coordinates
- 53.1995, -4.1368
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Caerhun Methodist Chapel is a large chapel built with its facade facing east towards Glasinfryn road, away from the village. The building is rendered and topped with a slate roof. The eastern front is symmetrical, featuring a central tripartite 20-pane sash window with a rendered architrave and a triangular pediment supported by scrolled consoles. There is a narrow tall window on each side of the central window. On the outer sides, there are round-headed doors set forward within a classical corniced arch, each door is panelled and has an overlight above. Above each door, there is a glazed oculus and a similar blind roundel in the gable's tympanum.
The side elevations consist of four bays, each with similar 12-pane sash windows set within shouldered architraved frames. At the northwest end, there is a narrower and lower section that serves as a lobby and schoolroom, featuring a window facing the main street with a segmental pediment on brackets decorated with acanthus leaves. The building also has two metal roof ventilators.
Inside, the entrance doors lead to triangular lobbies, which create a five-sided end opposite the pulpit located at the southwest end. Partly glazed panelled doors open into the main body of the chapel, which has a slight rake at the rear and contains 59 pews. The ceiling is coved and panelled, with a central perforated ventilator. The walls are plastered above a high boarded dado and feature a painted architrave. The pulpit is accessible by steps with turned newels leading to a handrail and is positioned in front of an architraved round-headed recess. Behind the pulpit, there is a panelled pine reredos with a shaped top, and the set fawr is enclosed.
Local climate
Caerhun MC Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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