Former Welsh Baptist Chapel, including forecourt gates, gate piers and railings is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 October 1981. House.
Former Welsh Baptist Chapel, including forecourt gates, gate piers and railings
- WRENN ID
- shifting-corbel-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Former Welsh Baptist Chapel, including forecourt gates, gate piers and railings, Walled Town
- OS grid reference
- SH 781 775
- Coordinates
- 53.28062, -3.8297
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former Welsh Baptist Chapel is a gable-fronted building with a steeply pitched roof and classical details, dating from 1875. The exterior features channelled rustication at the impost level, while the rest is finished in scribed roughcast, topped with a slate roof. The front has three bays, with a central entrance that projects under a coped gable. This entrance features a stilted round arch with a keystone and double fielded-panel doors topped by an overlight. At the time of the survey in 2005, this entrance and other windows were boarded up.
On either side of the entrance, there are round-headed windows with keystones, and the gables above these windows display the year 'AD 1875' in relief. The upper central window breaks through the entrance gable and consists of three round-headed lights, flanked by pilasters with early Gothic capitals that incorporate small heads, and outer consoles. The moulded round arches of these windows also have keystones. Despite being boarded up, the heavy wooden frames remain visible, featuring plate tracery heads with a cross in the centre light and a saltire cross in the outer lights. Above the windows, there is an inscription panel that reads 'Addoldy y Bedyddwyr', along with a keyed oculus that has louvres.
The side walls of the chapel each contain three plain windows. At the rear, a lean-to vestry or school room extends beyond the right side wall and has a boarded-up doorway. The rear gable of the main chapel includes a small boarded opening.
The forecourt is enclosed by a contemporary dwarf rubble-stone wall with dressed coping, complemented by iron railings featuring alternate spear and steeple finials. Central monolithic dressed-stone piers topped with pyramid caps support gates that match the design of the railings.
Local climate
Former Welsh Baptist Chapel, including forecourt gates, gate piers and railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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