Hill Park Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 July 1974. House.
Hill Park Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-chapel-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hill Park Baptist Church, Haverfordwest
- OS grid reference
- SM 955 159
- Coordinates
- 51.80493, -4.96674
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Hill Park Baptist Church is a chapel built with unpainted stucco and a slate roof. The side facing the main road is more decorative than the front, which leads to the chapel court. The building has a basement and two storeys. The front is partly hidden by the original chapel, featuring a coved open pediment and three stepped arched louvred openings in the gable that share a single sill. The two-storey facade consists of three bays with giant pilasters supporting moulded arches, which are wider in the center above a large arched window with three arched lights. The side windows are arched on the upper floor and have cambered heads below. There is a cambered headed unornamented doorway with recessed double three-panel doors and a three-light overlight. The left ground floor window is partially obscured by steps leading up to the earlier chapel.
The side elevation has a channelled basement with five windows, the leftmost of which is blind. Above this is a band under a five-bay arcade of pilasters with plinths, moulded bases, and moulded caps, which support five moulded arches. The eaves cornice is coved. Within the arches are a long arched window on the first floor and a short segmental arched window on the ground floor. Foundation stones dated 27 September 1888 are set between the pilaster plinths. The windows feature timber mullions on the lower level, while the upper ones are cross-windows. The rear has similar open pedimental eaves as the main front, with a similar louvred triplet framed by the letters 'Hill Park Baptist Chapel' in yellow bricks. There is a hipped lean-to organ loft.
The interior has not been inspected but is reported to have galleries on three sides, with some cast-iron inserts.
Local climate
Hill Park Baptist Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 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 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% 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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