Capel y Berthen is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2001. Chapel.
Capel y Berthen
- WRENN ID
- over-beam-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2001
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Capel y Berthen, Lixwm, Holywell, Ysceifiog
- OS grid reference
- SJ 167 714
- Coordinates
- 53.23372, -3.24841
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel y Berthen is a simple classical style chapel with pebble-dashed walls and a slate roof. The openings feature rock-faced stone dressings, and the windows are horned sashes with Italianate tracery and bracketed stone sills. The front of the chapel has four round-headed windows and a doorway to the left of center, which is topped with a segmental head and has a replaced panel door. To the right of center, a tablet notes the chapel's foundation in 1775 and its subsequent rebuildings.
A lean-to porch is attached to the right gable end, with a doorway that projects in front of the chapel and is gabled. This porch has replaced double panelled doors but retains its original radial overlight. The side wall of the porch includes a central window under a gablet similar to the chapel's front, with a band of blank foundation tablets below it, flanked by narrow sash windows. Above the porch, the gable end of the main chapel features a keyed oculus and a coped freestone verge.
Attached to the left gable end is a lower gabled school room and hall, built in 1992, above which the main chapel has a coursed rock-faced stone stack. The rear of the chapel has four windows that are similar to those at the front.
Local climate
Capel y Berthen receives an average of 930 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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