Moriah Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 January 2001. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Moriah Chapel
- WRENN ID
- winter-transept-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 January 2001
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Moriah Chapel, Abergwesyn, Builth Wells, Llanwrtyd Wells
- OS grid reference
- SN 853 525
- Coordinates
- 52.15958, -3.67719
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Moriah Chapel is a small single-storey chapel built in 1828 and rebuilt in 1867. It features a porch at the west end and a continuous outshut on the north side. The chapel is constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof, and the south side is rendered. The upper half of the west end is slate-hung, while the lower half is rendered. The small gabled porch has a planked door beneath a shouldered lintel that bears the inscription 'Moriah/Built 1828/Rebuilt 1867'.
The south side has two windows, both tripartite horned sashes with coloured margin glazing, set under flat heads. The east gable end also has two similar windows under shallow segmental heads made of stone voussoirs. To the right, leading into the stable outshut, is a boarded door with a similar head. The north side features a planked door to the right, located just under the eaves.
Inside, the chapel has a simple design with a three-bay roof and a canted boarded ceiling. There is a central bank of pews with carved bench ends and aisles on either side. At the east end, there is an octagonal wood panelled pulpit with blind trefoil-headed arches and open quatrefoils, accompanied by flanking stairs with turned balusters. It is noted that there was likely a gallery along the south side at one time.
A shaped marble tablet with a triangular head behind the pulpit commemorates Richard James, who served as minister for 49 years until his death in 1919. On the north wall, there is a simple marble tablet with a triangular head dedicated to Morgan Jenkins, a draper from Swansea who was born at Penybont Uchaf and lived from 1840 to 1921. This tablet was created by E L Davies of Llanwrtyd. The stable on the north side has not been entered.
Local climate
Moriah Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% 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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