Lewis Edwards Memorial outside Penllwyn Calvinistic Methodist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 September 2000. Memorial.
Lewis Edwards Memorial outside Penllwyn Calvinistic Methodist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- tangled-turret-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 September 2000
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Lewis Edwards Memorial outside Penllwyn Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Aberystwyth, Melindwr
- OS grid reference
- SN 653 803
- Coordinates
- 52.40444, -3.98147
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Lewis Edwards Memorial, located outside the Penllwyn Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, is a Grade II listed structure featuring a bronze bust on a granite pedestal. The bust is depicted in half-length, cloaked, and holding a book. The pedestal consists of a square plinth, with a shaft that tapers on three sides while the back remains vertical. The sides flare out beneath a moulded capital, with the centre front moulding projecting forward. The pedestal is inscribed in Welsh, honoring the memory of the Reverend Lewis Edwards, M.A., D.D., founder and first president of the Bala College from 1837 to 1887, and a notable educator and minister. He was born in Phwllcenawon Penllwyn on October 27, 1809, and passed away in Bala on August 19, 1887. Surrounding the memorial is a kerb with seven cast-iron standards that support iron chains and a horizontal bar.
Local climate
Lewis Edwards Memorial outside Penllwyn Calvinistic Methodist Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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