Bethel Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 May 1996. Church.
Bethel Chapel
- WRENN ID
- vast-sentry-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1996
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Bethel Chapel, Aberarth, Dyffryn Arth
- OS grid reference
- SN 478 638
- Coordinates
- 52.25191, -4.22986
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bethel Chapel is a building constructed from roughcast rubble stone, featuring a slate roof with bracket eaves and two iron ridge ventilators, dating from around 1900. The chapel has a broad lateral front that includes two large 24-pane main windows and 12-pane outer gallery lights, positioned above added gabled porches with ledged doors. A central plaque reads: "Bethel Aber-arth Addoldy yr Trefnyddion Calfinaidd Adailadwywd yn y flwyddyn 1803 Ail adailadwyd yn y flwyddyn 1848." The openings have plain raised cement surrounds and raised strips at the outer angles.
The west end is also roughcast and has a 16-pane window. At the northwest angle, there is an added stable and coach-house, which includes a ground floor window and door, along with a loft window above. The loft features a cart-entry in the end wall, built into the bank. The openings have yellow-brick heads. The east end has a 16-pane ground floor window and a boarded loft opening.
Inside, the chapel has no galleries and features a raked interior with tightly packed painted-grained box pews arranged in six blocks radiating outwards from a five-sided passage around a central block of pews, which surrounds the great seat and pulpit. The pulpit has a fretwork panelled front, and the walls and ceiling are plain plastered.
Local climate
Bethel Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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