Maesyrhelm Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 March 2000. Chapel.
Maesyrhelm Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- south-hall-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 March 2000
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Maesyrhelm Baptist Chapel, Llandrindod Wells, Llanbadarn Fynydd
- OS grid reference
- SO 087 765
- Coordinates
- 52.37893, -3.3423
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Maesyrhelm Baptist Chapel is a Baptist chapel constructed of rubble stone, topped with a half-hipped slate roof. The gable end features slate hanging and includes a large cambered-headed triple window, along with a date plaque that reads 'Maesyrhellem Baptist Chapel Built 1805 Rebuilt 1857'. The ground floor is also made of rubble stone, and there is an added gabled porch. The side walls do not have windows. At the rear gable end, there are two large pointed windows with stone voussoirs, and the timber tracery is likely from the 20th century.
Inside, there is a three-sided painted grained gallery supported by five octagonal timber posts. The gallery front has vertical cambered-headed panels that are grained in a lighter colour. The chapel contains stained pine pews arranged in three blocks, with plain vertical boarding on the backs and shaped ends. Inward-facing pews are positioned on either side of the pulpit, with the front pew of each block forming the set fawr. The pulpit platform is accessed by steps from the sides, featuring open balusters, and is topped with a raked panel displaying an elliptical intersect pattern. The pulpit front has a similar design over plain panelling, and there is a boarded dado. A plaque between the windows commemorates Rev David Davies (d. 1908), and a painted scroll above reads 'Praise ye the Lord'. The painted boarded flat ceiling, divided into three bays, is supported by boarded painted beams and includes three plain roundels.
The boarded lobby has stairs leading up to the gallery in each corner and features two four-panel doors that open into the chapel. The gallery benches are painted and grained, with open backs and shaped ends.
Local climate
Maesyrhelm Baptist Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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