Capel y Drewen including Vestry Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 March 1996. Chapel.
Capel y Drewen including Vestry Railings
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-facade-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1996
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Capel y Drewen including Vestry Railings, Cwm Cou, Beulah
- OS grid reference
- SN 292 418
- Coordinates
- 52.04861, -4.49099
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a non-denominational chapel with a vestry, constructed in an unusual free style without stylistic period detail. The chapel appears to date to the early 20th century, with a date of 1921 visible on a cast cornice. The building is constructed of whitewashed stone with cast-stone dressings and slate roofs.
The main chapel’s south-facing wall, running parallel to the road, features three pairs of small, plain arched windows. A flat-roofed porch/lobby projection extends from the ground floor, framed by two gables, the left one smaller and with a lower-pitched roof. The left gable is narrow, containing two diagonally stepped stair lights and two narrow rectangular gable lights. A recessed section to its left has a higher stair light, and the south-west and north-west angles are chamfered in diminishing steps. The west side wall, which slightly projects, includes two lower, diagonally stepped stair lights. The west end features two rectangular ground floor windows and three stepped arched gable lights. The central porch/lobby range has a cast cornice and two narrow rectangular windows on either side of a projecting doorway. The doorway is framed by two taller, corniced, thick piers, partly in brick, supporting a shallow arch. The cornice steps over the 1921 date. Similar half-octagonal responds are set against the gable walls at each end. The right transept gable contains a large three-light segmental arched window with flat mullions and a transom, and a curved hoodmould above. The vestry gable, set back to the right, incorporates three stepped rectangular windows with a curved hood over the centre light. The porch projection features a slightly curved cornice and a single light on each side of a flat-headed recessed doorway, framed by taller piers with chamfered angles and flat caps. All windows have leaded lights.
The vestry is located across the east end and has a flat-roofed porch projection. The front wall is whitewashed rubble with earlier 19th century scrolled iron low rails, featuring dog-bars and urn stanchions.
The interior follows a T-plan layout, with an ornate roof featuring a large tie-beam, queen-post, and collar trusses, with slatted triangular spaces. A west gallery is present with a low balustrade. Similar balustrading is found on a semicircular great seat and a semicircular pulpit, which is situated in front of a broad arch with folding high doors. This allows the vestry behind to be used as a stage. The pulpit front is removable. A gabled south transept is present, alongside a lean-to, smaller north transept.
Local climate
Capel y Drewen including Vestry Railings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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