Seion Capel y Bedyddwyr/Seion Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 August 1981. Baptist Chapel.
Seion Capel y Bedyddwyr/Seion Baptist Chapel
- WRENN ID
- fading-cornice-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1981
- Type
- Baptist Chapel
- Address
- Seion Capel y Bedyddwyr/Seion Baptist Chapel, St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- OS grid reference
- SM 754 254
- Coordinates
- 51.88213, -5.2643
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Seion Capel y Bedyddwyr, a Baptist Chapel, is constructed from rubble stone and features a slate roof. The front, which dates to around 1897, is finished in unpainted roughcast with raised cement dressings. It has arch-headed windows on its two-storey front, with a central arch-headed door framed by a moulded architrave that includes a keystone. The entrance features paired, panelled doors and a traceried fanlight. The windows are set in channel rusticated frames with arched hoodmoulds, with larger outer windows and two slightly shorter windows in the centre of the first floor, which are positioned higher than the outer windows. Above these is a small traceried roundel. The upper windows include timber tracery with two lights and a plain circle above. The gable is coped and topped with a block finial, and there is a rectangular plaque that reads 'Seion Capel y Bedyddwyr 1843, 1897'. The chapel has angle pilasters with pedestal blocks above.
The side elevations, likely dating from 1843, are also made of rubble stone and feature a single window on each floor with cut stone heads. The end walls have arch-headed windows with cut stone voussoirs. Inside, the chapel has a wood boarded roof, a gallery, and pews.
The schoolroom, which may date from the early 20th century, incorporates a building with an external stair as marked on the 1908 Ordnance Survey 25 map. It is built from rubble stone with a slate roof and a west end stack. This single-storey structure has an arch-headed door and two windows on the forecourt elevation, with a rendered east gable end facing the road that features two arched windows. The timber windows have two-light tracery with a circle above. The door on the forecourt side matches the tracery of the fanlight and has ledged doors. The windows to the right have timber arched heads with paired fixed lights and top lights above, which may have been altered. To the north of the schoolroom, a low rock-faced stone wall runs with centre gatepiers, end piers, and iron spearhead railings, along with matching centre gates.
Local climate
Seion Capel y Bedyddwyr/Seion Baptist Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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