Capel Salem with railings to forecourt is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 October 1995. Chapel.
Capel Salem with railings to forecourt
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-cellar-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1995
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Capel Salem with railings to forecourt, Coedpoeth
- OS grid reference
- SJ 283 512
- Coordinates
- 53.05376, -3.07074
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel Salem, built in the 19th century, is a chapel constructed from coursed and squared stone with freestone dressings, including angle quoins, and features a slate roof. The building is two storeys high, with a pedimented gable facing the street. It has paired central doors, each consisting of six panels and topped with round-arched fanlights, all set within a painted stone architrave that has paired steep pediments. On either side of the entrance are segmental-headed windows. The upper storey features a trio of round-headed windows in the centre, with similar outer windows aligned with those below. All windows have keystones above their arched heads and are connected by a continuous impost band. A tablet displaying the name and building dates is located at the apex of the gable. The five-window returns are adorned with 12-pane sash windows, which have flat stone lintels on the ground floor and rounded voussoir heads above. At the rear, the lower school room is two storeys high and has two 2-light windows with small paned lights above the transom on each elevation.
The chapel's forecourt is enclosed by cast-iron spearhead railings atop a low stone plinth wall, with similar entrance gates featuring plain stone piers capped with segments. Inside, the entrance lobby leads to stairs that ascend to the gallery. The body of the chapel includes a raking horse-shoe gallery that steps down to form the organ loft at the northern end. Supported by fluted Corinthian cast-iron columns, the gallery is decorated with panelling enriched with low-reliefs and blind turned balustrading, a detail mirrored in the set fawr. The organ, with painted pipes, is housed in a reeded arched recess. The ceiling features inset boarded borders and an ornate central rose. Original late 19th-century seating remains throughout, along with boarded dados and lined-out rendered walls. Some coloured stained glass is present in the southern windows, as well as in the top lights of the eastern and western windows.
Local climate
Capel Salem with railings to forecourt receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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