Y Wern Independent Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 February 1996. Chapel. 1 related planning application.

Y Wern Independent 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
16 February 1996
Type
Chapel
Address
Y Wern Independent Chapel, Gilfachreda, Llanarth, SA48 7QH
OS grid reference
SN 410 590
Coordinates
52.20653, -4.32723
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Y Wern Independent Chapel is an 18th-century building, constructed of unpainted stucco lined to resemble ashlar, with a slate roof and bracketed eaves. The chapel has a lateral facade featuring raised quoins, arched windows with small panes and radiating bar heads, and doors with traceried overlights. The design includes two long central windows, two slightly shorter gallery windows above two four-panel doors, all set within raised surrounds with incised voussoirs. The doors also feature similar raised heads with incised voussoir lines. A slate plinth runs along the base.

A vestry is attached to the left-hand end, with a lean-to porch leading to a first-floor room. There is also a blocked coach entry in the end wall. A forecourt fronts the chapel, featuring a cobbled triangular central strip, low rubble outer walls, spearhead iron rails, and dog-bars. The entrance is marked by two square stone gatepiers, capped with pyramids and ball finials, and matching spearhead iron gates.

The interior is attractive, with a white-painted three-sided gallery featuring pierced iron panels and pilasters with rosettes between the panels. The chapel retains box pews, grained on the outside and painted within, a curved panelled great seat, a canted pulpit front with fretwork panels, and globe gas lights. The ceiling is plastered and features a central rose.

Local climate

Y Wern Independent Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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