Capel Caerfarchell & Outbuilding to NE corner of Forecourt is a Grade II* listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 1992. A Georgian Chapel.

Capel Caerfarchell & Outbuilding to NE corner of Forecourt

WRENN ID
quiet-marble-peregrine
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Constituency
Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 July 1992
Type
Chapel
Period
Georgian
Address
Capel Caerfarchell & Outbuilding to NE corner of Forecourt, St. David's and the Cathedral Close
OS grid reference
SM 794 270
Coordinates
51.89782, -5.20688
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Capel Caerfarchell is a Calvinistic Methodist chapel built in 1827, constructed from rubble stone and featuring a hipped slate low-pitched roof. The lateral facade includes two round-arched small-paned windows with radiating stone voussoirs at the center, flanked by two outer six-panel doors. These doors have slightly cambered voussoirs and the four upper panels are fielded. A plaque between the windows reads, 'Adeiladwyd gyntaf yn y flwyddyn 1763. Ail adeiladwyd yn y flwyddyn 1827'.

The south end wall is slate-hung, with a 12-pane sash window below and another window above. The rear of the chapel has three upper windows and two 12-pane sashes with brick heads below. The north end features one upper window and a lean-to schoolroom with a roughcast front dated 1932.

The front courtyard is enclosed by low rubble walls topped with white rubble capping and purple ashlar gatepiers that have stepped caps and granite egg finials. At the northeast angle of the forecourt, there is a single-storey rubble stone outbuilding with a grouted slate roof, an east gable, double doors, and a brick stack on the west end, with a rounded southwest angle. This outbuilding is included for its group value with the chapel.

Inside, the chapel features a fine five-sided panel-fronted gallery supported by four slim wooden columns. The ceiling has wooden panelling, believed to be from 1912. The pews have scrolled arm-rests on the bench ends, and the three-sided pulpit is adorned with columned and arched panels, along with ramped handrails leading to the flanking steps. The gallery contains panelled benches, some with fielded panelling that is said to be re-used from an earlier chapel. Boxed ventilators are present on the gallery window sills.

Local climate

Capel Caerfarchell & Outbuilding to NE corner of Forecourt 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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