Forecourt Walls & Railings to Seion Capel y Bedyddwyrr/Seion Baptist Chapel, New Street is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 August 1981. Chapel.
Forecourt Walls & Railings to Seion Capel y Bedyddwyrr/Seion Baptist Chapel, New Street
- WRENN ID
- hollow-step-woodpecker
- 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
- Chapel
- Address
- Forecourt Walls & Railings to Seion Capel y Bedyddwyrr/Seion Baptist Chapel, New Street, St. David's and the Cathedral Close
- OS grid reference
- SM 754 254
- Coordinates
- 51.882, -5.26397
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The forecourt walls and railings to Seion Capel y Bedyddwyr, a Baptist chapel located on New Street, are constructed from rubble stone and feature a slate roof. The chapel itself has an unpainted roughcast front dating from around 1897, with raised cement dressings. The two-storey front includes arch-headed windows and a central arch-headed door framed by a moulded architrave with a keystone. The entrance has paired, panelled doors topped with a traceried fanlight. The windows are set in channel rusticated frames with arched hoodmoulds, featuring 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 have timber tracery, consisting of two lights with 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 building has angle pilasters with pedestal blocks above.
The side elevations, made of rubble stone, likely date from 1843 and each feature a single window on both floors, 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 noted on the 1908 Ordnance Survey 25-inch map. It is also built of 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, while the rendered east gable end facing the road has two arched windows. The timber windows feature two-light tracery with a circle above. The door on the forecourt side matches the tracery of the fanlight and has ledged doors. The adjacent windows to the right have timber arched heads above paired fixed lights and top lights, which may have been altered. From the schoolroom, a low rock-faced stone wall extends northward, featuring a central gatepier, end piers, and iron spearhead railings, with matching centre gates.
Local climate
Forecourt Walls & Railings to Seion Capel y Bedyddwyrr/Seion Baptist Chapel, New Street 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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