Pentre Llifior Methodist Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 October 1953. A 18th Century Chapel.

Pentre Llifior Methodist Chapel

WRENN ID
drifting-clay-spring
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 October 1953
Type
Chapel
Period
18th Century
Address
Pentre Llifior Methodist Chapel, Berriew
OS grid reference
SO 147 977
Coordinates
52.57114, -3.25987
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pentre Llifior Methodist Chapel is a small, simple brick chapel with a slate roof, accessed through the gable wall. The entrance features central paired panelled doors within a gabled porch that was added in 2012. Flanking the doors are two paired segmentally headed lights with interlaced tracery and some coloured glass, located above the doorway. Similar tracery is found in two matching windows on each side of the chapel, which have panelled external shutters and blue brick sills from the late 19th century. A date-stone between the front windows reads 'Wesley's Methodist Chapel 1798', although the '8' is painted over the original '7'. There are two similar windows in the right-hand gable return.

Inside, the chapel has a simple design with plastered walls above a boarded wainscot and a plain flat modern ceiling that is slightly lower than the original and below the tops of the gallery windows. A central aisle runs between the pews, with doors on either side, set on a suspended floor likely from around 1870. A bench has been added to the front of each set of pews. Similar pews are arranged at right angles on either side of the pulpit, which is behind a plain communion rail. The polygonal pulpit features fluted panels and has ball finials on the principal posts. The pews are difficult to date, but they maintain a simple Georgian character, regardless of whether they are from the original building. The pulpit and communion rail may date from 1870. The gallery has a plain panelled front supported by cast iron posts, with pews that have fielded panels on the doors.

Local climate

Pentre Llifior Methodist Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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