Capel Cefn Coch, Chapel House and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 March 1999. Chapel.

Capel Cefn Coch, Chapel House and Railings

WRENN ID
graven-lancet-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 March 1999
Type
Chapel
Address
Capel Cefn Coch, Chapel House and Railings, Llangernyw, Abergele
OS grid reference
SH 867 690
Coordinates
53.20603, -3.69722
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Capel Cefn Coch is a simple domestic-scale vernacular chapel built in the 19th century, featuring a rectangular plan and an adjacent two-storey chapel house to the east, connected by a linking block to the north. The structure is constructed of local stone rubble with slobbered mortar, while the south and west elevations of both the chapel and house are hung with Welsh slates. The roofs are gabled and covered with Welsh slates, featuring plain chamfered timber barge boards. The house has brick chimney stacks above its gables, and the linking block has a corrugated steel roof.

The chapel has a symmetrical south gable end facing the road, which includes a central pair of 12/12 hornless sash windows. The west elevation also features a similar window in the center, while the north gable end has a single central 15/15 sash window. All windows have hornless sashes with narrow glazing bars and retain much of the original handmade glass. The east elevation, facing the back of the house, includes a gabled entrance porch made of squared stone rubble, topped with a slate roof that has moulded and scalloped bargeboards and a decorated apex finial. The entrance features double 4-panel doors and a fanlight set within a two-centred pointed arch.

The front elevation of the house, facing east, is symmetrical and has three bays of windows along with a central side entry porch. At the roadside, cast iron railings set into a stone plinth boast elaborate spearhead finials, complemented by matching double gates and cast iron gateposts.

Inside, the chapel has a plain plastered interior with a circular ventilator at the center of the ceiling. The furnishings are polished or varnished pine, and the boarded floor gently slopes down from the north to a simply carved pulpit. The chapel also features gated pews with panelled backs.

Local climate

Capel Cefn Coch, Chapel House and Railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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