Capel Salem, including attached house, forecourt wall and outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 January 1999. Chapel.

Capel Salem, including attached house, forecourt wall and outbuilding

WRENN ID
muffled-bastion-twilight
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
8 January 1999
Type
Chapel
Address
Capel Salem, including attached house, forecourt wall and outbuilding, Mynydd Bach, Aberystwyth, Pontarfynach
OS grid reference
SN 718 765
Coordinates
52.37235, -3.88341
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Capel Salem, which includes an attached house, forecourt wall, and outbuilding, is a chapel and vestry built from rubble stone with slate roofs. The chapel features late 19th-century cement render on the lateral front, displaying the inscription "Salem, Mynyddbach, 1844" in raised cement letters. There is a small slate datestone at the eaves on the left side. The facade has been altered and includes two 12-pane horned sash windows at different levels on the left, with the outer window positioned slightly higher. To the right, there is a later 19th-century gable porch and a narrow outer window. The porch has a boarded door and overhanging verges. The rear is made of rubble stone and has two 12-pane sash windows with brick heads. The right end wall is slate-hung with overhanging verges.

Attached to the chapel is a two-storey, two-bay house/vestry that is rendered and features a stone chimney on the left. The first floor originally had two 20-pane sash windows, which were removed in 2004. The ground floor includes a doorway on the extreme right and a sash window with marginal glazing bars to the left, also removed in 2004. The left gable end, which was dismantled in 2004, had steps leading up to a first-floor panelled door and an attic window at the rear.

To the left of the house is a single-storey rubble stone outbuilding with a slate roof, a yellow brick chimney on the left end, a small window on the front left, and a doorway in the left end gable. The chapel and house/vestry are set behind a stone forecourt wall with iron gates at each end.

The interior of the chapel was partly dismantled in 2004 and features a flat ceiling with five small roundels, a wood panelled dado, a raking floor with box pews, and a set fawr enclosure with a rail. The pulpit is painted and grained, with a canted panelled front and turned balusters on each side, along with an arched panelled pulpit-back.

Local climate

Capel Salem, including attached house, forecourt wall and outbuilding 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 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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