Hepzibah Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 August 2001. Chapel.
Hepzibah Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- empty-garret-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 August 2001
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Hepzibah Baptist Chapel, Erwood, Builth Wells
- OS grid reference
- SO 097 429
- Coordinates
- 52.07713, -3.31838
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Hepzibah Baptist Chapel is a chapel built from whitewashed rubble stone, featuring a half-hipped slate roof with red terracotta ridge tiles. The north side wall, which is the original facade, has two arched windows with stone voussoirs and a blocked original door also with stone voussoirs in between. The east end wall is windowless but shows marks of a similar large arched window. There are two plaques dated 1845 and 1853. The south side wall has two arched windows like those on the north side, but one has brick voussoirs while the other has stone. The west end is rendered and includes an arched doorway with plain 20th-century double doors and a blank plastered arch head.
Inside, the chapel has whitewashed plastered walls and a gallery at the west end. Most of the fittings are from the late 19th century, including pitch pine pews and a low pulpit platform with balusters on either side of the pulpit front. The ceiling is boarded, and there is an arched timber panel behind the pulpit with a painted inscription that reads 'Emmanuel God with us'. The gallery appears older, painted with plain vertical panels and supported by two chamfered timber posts.
Local climate
Hepzibah Baptist Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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