Capel-y-Wern is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 November 1999. Chapel.

Capel-y-Wern

WRENN ID
steep-doorway-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 November 1999
Type
Chapel
Address
Capel-y-Wern, Llanrhaeadr, Denbigh, Llanrhaeadr-Yng-Nghinmeirch
OS grid reference
SJ 076 612
Coordinates
53.14016, -3.38138
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Capel-y-Wern is a small rectangular chapel constructed of roughcast rubble, featuring rusticated quoins made of raised plaster and moulded plaster architraves around the windows. It has a 20th-century slate roof with deep verges, modern bargeboards, and wooden finials at the gable ends. The main facade, which faces the road, has an off-centre entrance on the right, flanked by two windows on the left and one on the right. There is an early 20th-century gabled porch made of roughcast brick, topped with a slate roof and plain bargeboards. The porch has an open front with small two-part windows on the sides and a slate name plaque above the entrance. Inside, there is an original two-part boarded door with an ironwork handle and a pegged wooden frame, surrounded by a wide, simply-moulded architrave. The original 12-pane unhorned sash windows are recessed, featuring moulded plaster architraves and projecting stone sills. To the right of the entrance is a boarded two-light cellar window. The right gable includes a boarded door and a slated lean-to known as Ty Bach, which also has a boarded door. The rear of the chapel has three similar windows.

Inside, the chapel features original simple, grained pine box pews arranged in a raking layout from the right to the Set Fawr on the left. The sides of the pews are full-height and vertically boarded, with a plain plaster ceiling above. The Set Fawr is simply canted and panelled, with a moulded cornice and a two-panel rear that includes a painted band of Welsh text above.

Local climate

Capel-y-Wern sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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