Ectarc (Former Bedyddwyr Chapel) is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 December 1989. Chapel.

Ectarc (Former Bedyddwyr Chapel)

WRENN ID
roaming-keystone-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 December 1989
Type
Chapel
Address
Ectarc (Former Bedyddwyr Chapel), Llangollen
OS grid reference
SJ 214 420
Coordinates
52.96998, -3.17068
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Ectarc, formerly known as Bedyddwyr Chapel, is a classical two-storey building with a three-bay gable front, constructed from red brick and featuring golden freestone dressings, including a plinth and cill band. The front façade is characterized by three giant round arches supported by Doric pilasters, nook shafts, and roll mouldings. The gable is adorned with a pediment treatment and aedicule bases, along with a moulded attic roundel and a rectangular plaque at the top. The windows are modern small pane fixed glazed with marginal glazing bars. The main entrance features a chamfered outer arch and a small pane fanlight, now fitted with modern glazed doors and a projecting semicircular hood, leading up broad semicircular steps. The left side of the building has a roughcast finish with four windows, where three small pane sash windows on the ground floor have been blocked, while the first-floor windows have labels with stops. There is a modernized chapel house at the rear left, and the right side is similar.

Internally, the building has been extensively altered to create a conference and exhibition centre. The first floor is at gallery level and retains some original details, including a segmental arched ceiling with three large coloured ceiling roses, the central one featuring metal ventilators. A deep cornice with petal ornament sweeps up around the two tall openings on either side of the former pulpit, as well as over the outer windows in the front hall.

Local climate

Ectarc (Former Bedyddwyr Chapel) receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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