Blaenfos Baptist Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 January 1995. Chapel.

Blaenfos Baptist Chapel

WRENN ID
gilded-oriel-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 January 1995
Type
Chapel
Address
Blaenfos Baptist Chapel, Boncath
OS grid reference
SN 189 371
Coordinates
52.00275, -4.63891
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Blaenfos Baptist Chapel is an 1856 Baptist chapel featuring unpainted roughcast with stucco details. The building has a two-storey gable front with a triangular recess in the gable that displays the name "Capel y Bedyddwyr Blaenffos." There are two first-floor arched windows with small-paned glazing and two ground-floor 20th-century windows designed to imitate 16-pane sashes. The chapel has a raised plinth and double doors set in a raised surround, featuring a cambered head, keystone, and some fluting. Above the door, there is a plaque that reads, "Adeiladwyd y ty cyntaf yn y flwyddyn 1765, yn ail yn 1807 a'r Addoldy hwn yn 1856."

The sides of the chapel are two-storey with two windows, which include 16-pane sashes below and arched sashes with radiating bar heads above. At the rear, there are two long arched windows with plastic glazing. Inside, the chapel has a flat ceiling that may have later 19th-century boarding and a coved border. There is a three-sided gallery supported by three marbled wood columns with high bases. The painted grained gallery front has a cornice that breaks forward over the columns, and the panelling is divided by piers. The pews are grained and square, with the side ones featuring doors.

The rear vestibule includes a coloured-glass traceried centre window and two five-panel doors. The pulpit is notable for its thick ball-finial newels and steps leading up to a square pulpit with turned angle shafts and an integral panelled seat. An early 20th-century organ by G. Osmond of Taunton is located behind the pulpit.

Local climate

Blaenfos 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 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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