Bethabara Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 December 1999. Chapel.

Bethabara Baptist Chapel

WRENN ID
fading-pavement-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
6 December 1999
Type
Chapel
Address
Bethabara Baptist Chapel, Pontyglasier, Crymych
OS grid reference
SN 141 363
Coordinates
51.99473, -4.70905
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bethabara Baptist Chapel is a chapel constructed from coursed Cilgerran stone in long ashlar blocks, topped with a slate roof and featuring paired brackets at the eaves. The gable front showcases darker grey Cilgerran stone arches around the openings and a keyed roundel in the gable, which originally had a slate clock face that is now covered. The façade includes a pair of small arched windows at the center beneath a plaque, large long side windows, and a central door. The windows are small-paned sashes, 20th-century replicas of the originals, with the long windows displaying Y-tracery and cusping shaped like a descending dove at the apex. The double doors, also 20th-century copies, feature similar Y-tracery in the fanlight. The original doors had two long panels with cusped heads. All arches are adorned with cut voussoirs, keystones, and thin arch rings.

The sides of the chapel are made of rubble stone and include two long arched windows with cut stone voussoirs, as well as two similar windows at the rear with a small square boarded loft opening above. The side and rear windows are original.

Inside, there is a three-sided gallery supported by seven timber columns, with the bases positioned above the pews. The gallery front is made of pine with a moulded cornice, featuring long panels alternated with short square panels above the columns and at the curved angles. The panelled numbered pews have roll-moulded edges arranged in three blocks, with doors on the outer blocks and plain bench ends in the inner block. A three-sided set fawr has roll-moulded edges. The pulpit platform is accessed by steps on each side, with turned newels and stick balusters, and a rail front with cusped-headed openings, while the center pulpit is stepped forward. A plaster arch behind the pulpit is supported by panelled piers and console brackets. The lobby contains two four-panel doors and a window with etched and coloured marginal bars. The ceiling features a central plaster rose, diagonal ribs, and a moulded cornice.

Local climate

Bethabara Baptist Chapel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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