English Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. Chapel.

English Baptist Chapel

WRENN ID
riven-sill-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 November 1987
Type
Chapel
Address
English Baptist Chapel, Aberystwyth
OS grid reference
SN 582 817
Coordinates
52.41569, -4.08501
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The English Baptist Chapel is an Italianate simple classical building dating from the 19th century. It features a two-storey and basement structure with a gable-ended front, constructed from snecked rubble with rendered dressings. The gable is adorned with finials, although the apex finial is missing, and includes banded end pilaster strips, a band course with a vacant datestone, and a plinth. The chapel has a slate roof.

At the center of the front facade is a tall, stilted arched window with plate tracery, featuring a rose pattern oculus. The outer bay windows are recessed beneath gabled hoods with voussoirs. The windows on both the ground and gallery storeys are arranged within a single giant arch with a bracket cill and include marginal glazing bars, with punched roundels on the dividing bands. The entrance is a raised central cambered arch supported by cylindrical columns with foliage capitals, leading to double boarded doors set in a shouldered recess. The basement features sash windows, while the side elevations are five bays of scribed cement render with arched headed sash windows, glazing bars, and hoodmoulds that act as impost bands.

Inside, the chapel has a rectangular classical layout with a five-bay design. The ceiling is a renewed coved ribbed style with a corbelled cornice, ventilation panels in the coves, and a foliage rose in each bay. A raked gallery is positioned against the front wall, featuring a foliage panelled front and supported by cast-iron fluted columns with foliage capitals. There is a small great seat in front of a tripartite panelled end wall.

Local climate

English Baptist Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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