Forecourt Gates Gatepiers and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 August 1994. Chapel.

Forecourt Gates Gatepiers and Railings

WRENN ID
tenth-cloister-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 August 1994
Type
Chapel
Address
Forecourt Gates Gatepiers and Railings, Llechryd, Llangoedmor
OS grid reference
SN 216 438
Coordinates
52.06402, -4.60297
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The building is an Independent Chapel dating from 1830, featuring a rendered front and a slate hipped roof. The front facade includes plain square-headed openings for two long central windows, two doors, and two long gallery windows above. The doors and central windows are adorned with stucco pilasters and moulded arches, while the gallery windows have raised surrounds. A painted slate diamond plaque in the center states, "Llechryd Chapel was built in the year 1709 and rebuilt in the year 1830." The doors are 20th-century framed ledged doors with overlights and early 20th-century plain glazing. The south wall is constructed of rubble stone and features a 6-pane sash window on each floor. Attached to the northeast corner is an altered 19th-century two-storey chapel house with three windows, also built of rubble stone.

The front retaining wall is made of Cilgerran stone from the 19th century and includes slim monolith gatepiers that are pyramid-capped, a coped wall with low spearhead railings and intermediate spearheads on each side, and larger cut-stone pyramid-capped end piers. There are double iron gates.

Inside, the chapel contains grained box pews from 1830, with some reused elements from the earlier chapel, including one seat-back inscribed "Coedmore Seat 1709." The chapel features a five-sided gallery supported by four marbled timber columns, with a bracketed cornice and a panelled front. A clock made by D Jenkins in Cardigan in 1839 is also present. The ceiling has later plain ornamentation with ribs and a central rose, and there is a later 19th-century pulpit with a plaster arched aedicule behind it, along with a great seat that has balustrading.

Local climate

Forecourt Gates Gatepiers and Railings 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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