Pennal Independent Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 November 1997. Chapel.
Pennal Independent Chapel
- WRENN ID
- upper-solder-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1997
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Pennal Independent Chapel, Glaspwll, Cadfarch
- OS grid reference
- SN 738 976
- Coordinates
- 52.562, -3.86254
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pennal Independent Chapel is a small, symmetrical, single-storey chapel built with large blocks of random stone, which has been white-washed on the front and covered with a slate roof. The long-wall facade features a central entrance that includes a panelled door with a 4-pane rectangular overlight set beneath a timber lintel. Flanking the entrance are narrow 12-pane horned sash windows, positioned just below the eaves. At the rear, there is a central 12-pane horned sash window, which is set under a head of stone voussoirs that illuminates the pulpit. The disturbed masonry, including some large boulders at the rear, may suggest that the chapel has earlier origins.
Inside, the chapel features a wooden pulpit and a set fawr enclosure adorned with floral reliefs and roundels. There are wooden benches, deeply splayed windows, and the roof is ceiled at collar level.
Local climate
Pennal Independent Chapel 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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