Pen-y-Fron Baptist Chapel (including burial ground walls). is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 June 1995. Farm buildings.
Pen-y-Fron Baptist Chapel (including burial ground walls).
- WRENN ID
- long-chalk-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1995
- Type
- Farm buildings
- Address
- Pen-y-Fron Baptist Chapel (including burial ground walls)., Gwernaffield with Pantmwyn
- OS grid reference
- SJ 196 657
- Coordinates
- 53.18298, -3.20334
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pen-y-Fron Baptist Chapel, built in 1825, is located on the east side of Pen-y-fron Road in the northern part of the settlement. It is the oldest surviving Baptist chapel still in use in the former county of Flintshire and is notable for being the only intact example with a square plan and a central entrance in the side wall. The chapel underwent repairs and restoration in the late 20th century, and its furnishings were sourced from elsewhere.
The exterior features rubble construction with roughly squared quoins and stepped architraves around the openings. It has a renewed slate roof and a symmetrical façade with a central entrance that includes a 19th-century door flanked by sash windows with margin lights and textured glass; the window to the right has a renewed stone lintel. Above the entrance is a stone inscribed in Welsh from Isaiah 55:3, along with the date 1825. An outbuilding with a 20th-century door is attached to the right side. The left-hand return elevation is rendered, while the rear elevation has two sash windows similar to those at the front.
The burial ground walls, made of rubble, extend from both the front and rear of the building, forming a rectangular enclosure that contains gravestones. These walls were restored in the late 20th century.
The interior was not accessible during the inspection in March 1995. The chapel is listed as a locally rare example of a Baptist chapel with an early plan form that remains in relation to its burial ground.
Local climate
Pen-y-Fron Baptist Chapel (including burial ground walls). 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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