Pantycelyn Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 October 2000. Chapel.

Pantycelyn Baptist Chapel

WRENN ID
strange-niche-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 October 2000
Type
Chapel
Address
Pantycelyn Baptist Chapel, Treflys
OS grid reference
SN 893 537
Coordinates
52.17107, -3.61936
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pantycelyn Baptist Chapel is a small chapel built with rubble walls painted cream and topped with a slate roof. The openings feature brick dressings and round-headed hornless sash windows. The gable-end front includes a central round-headed doorway with double panelled doors and a radial overlight. On either side of the doorway are small slate plaques, and to the left is a stone tablet on moulded corbels by Daniel Davies, commemorating Peter Jones, a former deacon who died in 1858. Above the doorway is a single window, with a tablet from 1890 positioned above it. The left side wall has two tall windows, and between them is a small stone tablet dated 1832, indicating that this was the main façade of the chapel until 1890. Below the right-hand window is a memorial slab commemorating Margaret Griffiths, who died in 1816. On the right side of the chapel, there is a track at a higher level, and a stone mounting block with slate steps is built against the wall at the angle with the main front. The side wall has two windows that light the gallery, while the rear has a single window. In the lower right corner, there is a stone memorial tablet by D. Jones of Llanfechan commemorating David and Margaret Morgans, who died in 1796 and 1816, respectively.

Inside, a small vestibule leads to the main chapel through plain double doors. The chapel features a three-sided raked gallery with a panelled front, supported by cast iron posts with foliage capitals. The plaster ceiling includes a single moulded roundel. A later pulpit with turned balusters is present, and the pews and set fawr have plain details.

Local climate

Pantycelyn Baptist Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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