Capel Pentour, including forecourt railings and gates is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1978. Fountain.
Capel Pentour, including forecourt railings and gates
- WRENN ID
- proud-chalk-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1978
- Type
- Fountain
- Address
- Capel Pentour, including forecourt railings and gates, Fishguard, Fishguard and Goodwick
- OS grid reference
- SM 960 370
- Coordinates
- 51.99447, -4.97251
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Capel Pentour is a chapel with a stuccoed front elevation, featuring a modillion eaves cornice and a slate gabled roof. The long-wall front elevation includes two arched centre lights that are closely set, with a small roundel window above and between them. On either side, there are two large gallery lights positioned higher, above twin flat-roofed porches that are accessed from the inner sides, all beneath a slated veranda.
The four main windows are adorned with pilasters, moulded arches, and keystones, while the two centre windows share a panelled pier between them. The glazing is of the Florentine type, consisting of two round-arched transomed lights with a stained glass circle above. The small roundel features radiating tracery and a matching moulded arched hood with a keystone. The ground floor has a three-bay slate-roofed veranda supported by iron columns with capitals, situated between the two flat-roofed porches. Each porch contains two small cambered-headed windows on the front and a six-panel doorway in each inner side wall. There are date plaques located within the veranda.
The forecourt is enclosed by a stuccoed wall with coping and ornate iron railings, which have standards topped with ball finials. The gates, located at the right-hand end and in the middle, feature ironwork of a similar design.
The interior has a square plan and dates back to 1889, with enclosed stairs leading up to the galleries from the porches. The woodwork is pitch pine, with pews arranged in the centre block and additional pews located under the three-sided gallery, which is supported by seven iron columns. The gallery front displays panels of herringbone and vertical boarding beneath long pierced cast-iron panels. A clock dated 1866 is present. There is no set fawr. The pulpit platform features balusters on each side of the projecting pulpit front, which has arched-headed panels and attached columns. An organ, installed in the 1960s by G Osmond & Co of Taunton, covers the former rear windows. The ceiling has a plain plaster cornice.
Local climate
Capel Pentour, including forecourt railings and gates sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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