Blaenwaun Baptismal Pool is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 November 2005. Baptismal pool.
Blaenwaun Baptismal Pool
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-foundation-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 November 2005
- Type
- Baptismal pool
- Address
- Blaenwaun Baptismal Pool, St Dogmaels, Cardigan, St. Dogmaels
- OS grid reference
- SN 160 450
- Coordinates
- 52.07358, -4.68591
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Blaenwaun Baptismal Pool is a substantial baptismal pool that has been sunk into the ground along the course of a stream. It is surrounded by tiered seating, which gives it an amphitheatre-like appearance. The structure is made of brick and concrete, which replaces or encases an earlier stone structure. The concrete-floored pool is flanked to the north by four tiers of seating arranged in arcs, and to the south by a wider six-tier curving span. Steps provide access to and from the pool on the west and east sides. Above the western entrance steps, a boulder has been incorporated into the structure and serves as a pulpit for the preacher.
Local climate
Blaenwaun Baptismal Pool sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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