Capel Rehoboth is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 May 1999. Chapel.
Capel Rehoboth
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1999
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Capel Rehoboth, Nant Peris, Caernarfon, Llanberis, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 605 584
- Coordinates
- 53.10496, -4.08446
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel Rehoboth is a chapel dating from 1833, with additions in 1876, built in a simplified Classical style. The building has a rectangular plan and is constructed of rock-faced snecked rubble blocks with tooled ashlar dressings, covered by a slate roof. The gabled entrance front has three bays and features alternating quoins, a string course, a moulded cornice, and an upper string course leading to a coped pediment. The upper portion contains round-headed window openings in plain pilastered surrounds, with keystones to the left and right of a central round-headed Venetian window. This central window is supported by polished shafts with Corinthian capitals and contains sash windows with margin lights and coloured glass roundels. The ground floor has square-headed sash windows with margin lights, flanked by a three-bay shallow porch with a slate capping and round-headed openings. Recessed six-panel doors with fanlights are located within the outer openings, while the centre contains a fixed-light window with margin lights and coloured glass. A semi-circular slate stone above the cornice, with a scrolled surround, reads "REHOBOTH/ ADEILADWYD 1833/ AILADEILADWYD 1876”. A small, louvred round-headed opening sits directly above the upper string course, surmounted by a stone finial with a wrought-iron cross to the gable. The rendered return walls include four sashes to each floor, following the pattern of those on the front elevation but without the surrounds. A lean-to structure attached to the rear gable, representing a former Sunday School, has three twelve-paned sashes to its rear wall. A former manse is attached to the rear right corner of the chapel.
The imposing galleried interior features a flat ribbed plaster ceiling with a moulded cornice, floral motifs, boarded panels with decorative fretwork to the borders, and a large plaster rose to the centre with a richly decorated pendant lantern. There are box pews on the ground floor and an impressive set fawr (pulpit area) with turned balusters enclosing the reading desk, chairs, and inlaid pulpit. Behind the set fawr is a blind Venetian plaster arch with fluted Corinthian pilasters and a painted key-block. A panelled gallery with raked seating is supported on five cast-iron columns. A Victorian clock overlooks the set fawr. The window surrounds are moulded with console brackets, and the entrance lobby contains opposing round-headed arches with consoles at the base of staircases with turned newels and stick balusters, leading to the gallery. Six-panel doors flank a central rose window with coloured glass, situated below a marble memorial commemorating the First World War. Benches from the 19th century are present in the Sunday School.
Local climate
Capel Rehoboth sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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