Blaencefn Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 March 1995. Chapel.
Blaencefn Chapel
- WRENN ID
- final-buttress-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1995
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Blaencefn Chapel, Ferwig, Y Ferwig
- OS grid reference
- SN 207 503
- Coordinates
- 52.12227, -4.61993
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Blaencefn Chapel is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel built in 1837 from coursed rubble stone, featuring a lateral facade facing west and a slate roof. The exterior includes two long arched small paned windows with marginal glazing bars, and two ledged doors topped with traceried overlights and sandstone voussoirs above cambered heads. There are also two long twelve pane sash windows for the gallery. A small slate plaque is located at the center of the facade.
The south end wall is rendered and has one twelve pane sash window for the gallery. The rear east wall is also rendered and features one twelve pane sash window for the gallery along with two eighteen pane sash windows at ground level. The north end is constructed of rubble stone and includes a gallery light with stone voussoirs.
Inside, the chapel has a three-sided gallery supported by two iron columns with leaf capitals made by Woodward of Cardigan. The gallery features chamfered corners, a cornice, and horizontal panels between panelled piers. The seating consists of pitch pine pews, and the pulpit has balustered steps on each side and a three-sided front. The ceiling is flat and has a herring-bone boarding design.
Local climate
Blaencefn Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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