Capel Bethesda is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 September 1997. Chapel.
Capel Bethesda
- WRENN ID
- leaning-balcony-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 September 1997
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Capel Bethesda, Cwm Tynant, Aberystwyth, Ceulanamaesmawr
- OS grid reference
- SN 693 885
- Coordinates
- 52.47901, -3.92485
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel Bethesda is a building constructed from rubble stone and topped with a slate roof featuring paired brackets at the eaves. The lateral facade includes two large 4-pane sash windows and two outer ledged doors, with stone voussoirs and slate sills. The doors are framed and ledged, and the west end wall is clad in corrugated iron. At the rear, there are two small-paned 16-pane windows.
Inside, the chapel has a plain design without galleries. It features a boarded curved ceiling and a pulpit with thin balusters leading to the steps, a plain front, and turned angle balusters. The pulpit has a panelled back, and there are three rows of raked pews. The set fawr has a balustraded back, and there are two internal porches.
Local climate
Capel Bethesda 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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