Capel Saron and attached Chapel House is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 2000. Chapel, house.
Capel Saron and attached Chapel House
- WRENN ID
- still-foundation-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 July 2000
- Type
- Chapel, house
- Address
- Capel Saron and attached Chapel House, Welshpool, Llanfihangel
- OS grid reference
- SJ 075 114
- Coordinates
- 52.69265, -3.36925
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel Saron and the attached Chapel House are simple buildings from the late vernacular style, constructed in one range with the chapel on the right and the house on the left. They are made of axe-dressed uncoursed stone, topped with a slate roof and a tile ridge, and feature a stone stack at the end serving the house. The corners have heavy rock-faced stonework.
The chapel includes a large 12-pane sash window with margin glazing and stone voussoirs to the left, which is central to the entire building. To the right, there is a door set within a large porch that has stone side walls, a late 19th-century timber-boarded gable with square or quatrefoil-pierced bargeboards, and a timber finial. Inside the porch are bench seats and a six-panel door. The right end wall of the chapel has an arched window with a stuccoed head and marginal bars on the sides and bottom of the glazing. The rear wall is roughcast and features a six-pane window with side margin bars.
The house has a simple boarded door on the left and a pair of casement windows on each storey to the right, with the lower windows having cambered heads and stone voussoirs. The rear wall is also roughcast and includes a casement pair on the first storey. The end wall is roughcast as well, with a door and window on the ground storey, the door located within a corrugated iron porch. The masonry of the house is reinforced with wrought iron ties at two levels.
Inside the chapel, the space is two bays wide with a mid-truss boxed in. It features late 19th-century pews and a pulpit, which has a canted front with carved panels, decorative baluster sides and steps, and a decorative front rail. There are ball finials on the carved newels and a wall recess with a moulded arch. The floor is raked, with pews arranged in two blocks and additional pews on either side of the pulpit. The dado is boarded with a decorative top that extends up at the rear of the pulpit.
Local climate
Capel Saron and attached Chapel House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 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 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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