Bethel Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 February 1997. Chapel.

Bethel Baptist Chapel

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 February 1997
Type
Chapel
Address
Bethel Baptist Chapel, Silian, Lampeter, Llangybi
OS grid reference
SN 577 508
Coordinates
52.13746, -4.07962
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bethel Baptist Chapel is a building from around the mid-19th century, possibly dating to 1831. It features unpainted roughcast walls with unpainted stucco dressings, all dating from 1955, and a slate roof with a metal ventilator. The small lateral facade includes two cambered-headed 12-pane sash windows set in stucco surrounds with keyblocks, with a date plaque positioned between them. The outer doors are also cambered-headed, surrounded by stucco with keyblocks, and have pebble dash inserts on either side. The entrance has double 2-panel doors and channelled angle piers. The end walls contain small first-floor 9-pane sash windows, while the rear has a 20th-century red brick lean-to that is two storeys high.

Inside, the chapel has a three-sided ceiling that slopes towards the back and front. A three-sided gallery is supported by three reeded wooden marbled columns, with the gallery front curving at the angles and featuring a deep marbled cornice beneath a row of vertical panels and a central round clock panel. The interior also includes painted grained box pews arranged in three blocks along the rear wall, with a small block to the right of the pulpit. The great seat is plain with canted ends, and the pulpit has steps on each side, curved angles, and blind balustrading with a curving top rail. Gallery stairs are located at the rear corners, with lobbies in the front corners.

Local climate

Bethel Baptist Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 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 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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