Cae-Bach Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1985. Chapel.

Cae-Bach Chapel

WRENN ID
seventh-basalt-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 September 1985
Type
Chapel
Address
Cae-Bach Chapel, Llandrindod Wells
OS grid reference
SO 058 622
Coordinates
52.25025, -3.37983
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Cae-Bach Chapel is a single-storey building constructed from rubble, featuring some hand-made brick dressings around the windows. It has a half-hipped raised slate roof with advanced boarded eaves, a timber wall plate, and two brace plates below. The front of the chapel includes two later 18th-century sash windows with glazing bars, framed by ogee-headed timber architraves. In the center, there are double doors, each with three panels, set within a 19th-century lightly chamfered frame topped with a timber lintel.

The left side elevation is plain rubble with simple bargeboards and advanced bracket eaves, while the right side is similar but includes one later ogee-headed window like those on the front, featuring brick voussoirs and a relieving arch above. The rear is also rubble, with two brace plates beneath the advanced boarded eaves. It has one ogee-headed window similar to the front, with a later brick sill, and one flat-headed sash window with cambered brick voussoirs and a brick sill.

In the graveyard, there are early 19th-century tombstones against the right side elevation and front, along with a fine group of tombstones.

Inside, the chapel has a plastered barrel-vaulted ceiling and retains its original fittings, though it has an unusual orientation. The semi-octagonal pulpit, which has been lowered, is located against the right end wall below the window. The box pews, slightly raked towards the rear, feature panelling with raised fields, and there is a later gallery at the rear against the left end wall. A wall monument commemorates Thomas Jones of Tetbury, who died in 1745, and is dated 1810.

Local climate

Cae-Bach Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 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 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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