Capel Rehoboth is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 June 2001. Chapel.

Capel Rehoboth

WRENN ID
dim-gargoyle-wren
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 June 2001
Type
Chapel
Address
Capel Rehoboth, Harlech, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 583 311
Coordinates
52.85956, -4.10574
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Capel Rehoboth is a medium-sized rectangular chapel, with a later school-room addition that steps down at the west gable end. The building is constructed from roughcast rubble and features applied corner pilasters and window dressings made of raised render, reflecting a late 19th century to early 20th century vernacular style. The roof is renewed slate with a tiled ridge, plain bargeboards, and slate slab copings at the gable ends.

The chapel has four bays on the sides, with four tall, arched 8-pane sash windows on the north side and three on the south side, where there is also a porch entrance located on the third bay. The windows have marginal glazing and 2-pane segmental heads. The single-storey porch is gabled, featuring a boarded door on the west return and a small 8-pane sash window on the front (south). Above the porch is an inset slate plaque inscribed: 'Rehoboth 1820 J.R.J.' There is an additional tall arched window on the east gable end. The adjoining school-room has a catslide porch on the right side of the south, which partly overlaps the chapel, and includes a boarded door. The south side also has a 4-pane sash window with marginal glazing and a boarded door to the basement on the left; there is a reduced rendered brick chimney on the left gable.

Inside, the late 19th century fittings have been preserved. The chapel features grained pine pews with pointed-arched pew ends that slope down to the Set Fawr, arranged with a central aisle. The ceiling is compartmented into four parts, with boarding and lateral dividing beams. Each compartment contains a central roundel with a moulded frame and a decorative iron vent. The Set Fawr is enclosed with a U-shaped panelled enclosure, featuring moulded vertical lower panels and a turned, arcaded upper section, along with plain square newels topped with ball finials. Access to the Set Fawr is provided from both the right and left via similar flights of steps. The pulpit front has turned upper balusters and a rail, with a tall arched recess behind the seat, framed by a broad plaster architrave. To the left of the Set Fawr is a 4-panel door with a plain architrave.

Local climate

Capel Rehoboth sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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