Brithdir Independent Chapel including Low Front Walls, Railings and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 May 1995. A Victorian Chapel.
Brithdir Independent Chapel including Low Front Walls, Railings and Gates
- WRENN ID
- waning-entrance-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1995
- Type
- Chapel
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Brithdir Independent Chapel including Low Front Walls, Railings and Gates, Brithdir and Llanfachreth, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 768 187
- Coordinates
- 52.75204, -3.82655
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Brithdir Independent Chapel, built in 1860, is a 4-bay rectangular chapel constructed of rough-dressed rubble with dressed slate-stone detailing and a shallow-pitched slate roof. The symmetrical front features plain bargeboards that return to create a pedimental effect. In the center, there is an oculus with an inscribed plaque that reads: 'Brithdir Independent Chapel, erected 1860.' Below this is a single-storey projecting porch with a flat roof and plain entablature. The entrance is depressed-arched, with plain projecting imposts and shallow rubble pilasters, leading to recessed boarded doors. Flanking the entrance are round-arched windows with similar imposts and a plain cill band, featuring 9-pane fixed glazing with Y heads. The sides of the chapel have four tall, recessed 8-pane sash windows with projecting slate cills. The east end wall is rendered. Attached to this gable end is a 5-sided single-storey bay, which serves as a contemporary school room, featuring boarded doors on the left and right and 12-pane sash windows on the three remaining sides. There is also an off-centre rubble chimney with a modern upper section.
The chapel has low forecourt walls that are slate-coped, with plain decorative iron railings at the front. There are similar gates in the center and an additional gate leading to the churchyard on the right.
Inside, the chapel features a plain interior with pitch pine pews and dado panelling. The school room retains its original benches and lectern.
Local climate
Brithdir Independent Chapel including Low Front Walls, Railings and Gates sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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