Chapel at Bronllys Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 June 1988. Chapel. 3 related planning applications.
Chapel at Bronllys Hospital
- WRENN ID
- cold-finial-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1988
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel at Bronllys Hospital, LD3 0LY
- OS grid reference
- SO 135 349
- Coordinates
- 52.00657, -3.26031
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Chapel at Bronllys Hospital is a 19th-century building with a cruciform plan. It features a rendered and painted exterior with a Westmorland slate roof. The chapel has a two-bay nave and a short raised chancel that includes a square apse elevated on a plinth and has a lower roof. The transepts include a south transept that houses the organ chamber, with a vestry and heating chamber located below.
The west door is studded and features square lights beneath a stone arch, with the tympanum filled with herringbone masonry. Slightly battered buttresses with stone corbel heads create bays that contain triple light windows with iron frames and margin leaded glass, set on sills made of three courses of slate. The north transept and east window have stepped triple lights with round stone arches. There are also boarded and studded doors on the east side of the north transept. The tapered bell tower has a small pyramidal roof, and the bell opening consists of vertical slots. An oculus is present in the south transept gable.
Inside, the chapel has an open roof formed of trusses in each bay and across the three sides of the crossing. The laminated timber trusses include principal rafters, scissor rafters, collars, and struts to the upper purlin, which are mostly doubled, creating an attractive network effect. The pulpit is part-octagonal and symmetrical, accompanied by a reading desk, both accessed from sanctuary steps. There is a round arch opening leading to the sanctuary, and the floor is made of parquet.
Local climate
Chapel at Bronllys Hospital sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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