Maengwyn Chapel (Welsh Presbyterian Church) is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 November 1990. Chapel.

Maengwyn Chapel (Welsh Presbyterian Church)

WRENN ID
keen-lancet-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 November 1990
Type
Chapel
Address
Maengwyn Chapel (Welsh Presbyterian Church), Machynlleth
OS grid reference
SH 746 007
Coordinates
52.59038, -3.85109
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Maengwyn Chapel, a Welsh Presbyterian Church, is a Gothic building with an asymmetrical and unique three-bay front elevation that steps down from left to right. It is constructed of snecked rubble with freestone dressings and features slate roofs. To the left, there is a low tower with a saddleback roof, which has a trefoil punched roundel above a three-light window with a continuous label. Below this, a cusped lancet window has a label that extends to the right and rises to connect with the label over a central wheel window. This label continues to the division between the central gabled bay and the lower right-hand bay, which is marked by a stepped buttress. A string course at cill level runs across the central and left-hand bays, wrapping around the buttress and stepping down to form the cill for the cusped lancet on the right. Above, there is a dentil stone cornice and a hipped cross roof. The central and end doorways feature Caernarvon arch heads with foliage carving in the tympani, and the central boarded door is flanked by arches of equal width over narrow lancets. The side elevations have five bays with 2-light triangular-headed Gothic windows and a basement. The rear has slate hanging and a trefoil punched circular window.

Inside, the chapel features a panelled gallery front supported by plain iron columns and open roof trusses.

Local climate

Maengwyn Chapel (Welsh Presbyterian Church) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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