Tower Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1970. Chapel.
Tower Chapel
- WRENN ID
- upper-cupola-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1970
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Tower Chapel, Caldey Village, Tenby
- OS grid reference
- SS 139 968
- Coordinates
- 51.63952, -4.68996
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Tower Chapel is a round tower constructed from rubble stone, topped with a low-pitched, close-eaved conical roof made of tarred slates. It consists of a basement and ground floor, although the basement is no longer accessible. The south door is set back in a deep splayed reveal and is accessed by six steep steps, with the wall thickness measuring 10 centimeters. The door features a triangular head made of red bricks with a stone keystone, and it is a narrow, triangular-headed plank door with cover strips.
On the north side, there is a large triangular-headed window that includes horizontally-sliding eight-pane casements and a glazed triangular head, which also has a similar red brick head and stone keystone. There are straight joints visible from a blocked lower opening located below and to the left of the window.
Inside, the circular room is whitewashed and has a shallow domed ceiling, with a slight arch that breaks into the dome over the altar. There is a cupboard on the west wall, which is fitted with wrought-iron hinges.
Local climate
Tower Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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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