Capel y Drindod is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 September 1964. Chapel.

Capel y Drindod

WRENN ID
worn-garret-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 September 1964
Type
Chapel
Address
Capel y Drindod, Aberbanc, Llandyfriog
OS grid reference
SN 354 418
Coordinates
52.0502, -4.40054
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Capel y Drindod is a 19th-century chapel built in 1864, featuring squared rubble construction and a slate roof with timber eaves and bargeboards. The building has a low plinth and a three-bay gable front. The wide central round-arched doorway is fitted with paired six-panel doors, panelled reveals, and a radiating fanlight that includes some coloured glazing. The doorway is framed by dressed stone voussoirs. On either side of the entrance, there are tall round-arched windows set in similarly arched recesses, each containing 45-paned horned sash windows with radiating upper glazing, also with dressed stone voussoirs and slate sills. The gable is adorned with a lozenge-shaped tablet inscribed: "Capel y Drindod. Adeiladwyd 1864."

There are three similar windows on each side of the chapel and two at the rear. The north side features a 20th-century brick lean-to at the right end.

Inside, the chapel has a flat plaster ceiling with a large central plaster rose and four smaller, simpler roses towards the corners, along with a moulded plaster cornice. The seating consists of box-type pews with doors, except for those towards the rear of the side ranks, which are marked with brass numerals. The big seat has a panelled canted front. The pulpit is elaborately designed with a veneered serpentine front, a panelled lower section, and a central panel above flanked by short balustrades. The outer bays of the pulpit return to curved staircases with turned balusters and square newels topped with ogee finals. The rear lobby window features a central lozenge pane and coloured marginal glazing.

Local climate

Capel y Drindod sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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